Sentences with phrase «war against reason»

Third, science teachers are the critical bastion in the war against reason.

As of November 7, 2000 it was certain that George Bush had defeated Al Gore (the EU and UN presidential choice) and the war against reason went mainstream.

As long as Christians remain in power in the US, their war against reason will continue and we will all continue to suffer for it.

Not exact matches

It stands to reason that Trump would seek an aggressive attorney, since all of his other moves in the last week indicate a decision to fight a war against Mueller, rather than seek a negotiated path.

I am against war, being raised in the Vietnam war era (another mistake, in my opinion), and there are many political reasons why certain countries in the middle east do not like us, which probably has translated down to Muslims not liking us.

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism brings together in a little more than two hundred pages a treasure of information and perspectives on what may well be the defining conflict of the twenty - first century.

In Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, George Weigel offers a succinct statement of where the war on jihadism stands today, what.War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, George Weigel offers a succinct statement of where the war on jihadism stands today, what.war on jihadism stands today, what....

we would self sustain ourselves... they have been the prime reason fr th recession due to higher oil prices to indirectly stage war against america and the rest of the world... cowards... if ther was no oil... the time has come for the next era... we are not far away from that day... the world is changing... science is developing in exponential way... new species are still being found... ther is always a progress... and these extremists are travelling to the end of the road... which will form the next journey fr the major part of the other world... no oil... no islamist would be heeded anymore... those people ll crumble very soon

That is one of the great reasons God asked Israel to go to war against other tribes at times.

Religion is fighting a war against science for some unknown reason.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author, most recently, of Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism.

For this reason, some Lutheran theologians prefer to speak of «orders of preservation,» taking into account what God is doing to sustain the world under the conditions of sin, even using means sin - laden themselves, such as war and capital punishment, to fight against still more serious attacks on the goodness of God's creation.

The widespread nature of this judgment is likely one of the reasons this «presumption against war» concept, original to the United States Catholic bishops, has since 1983 become more broadly accepted as descriptive of the just war idea.

The war on terrorism is a war against al - Qaeda, not Islam, he says, and the reason for the war is our foes» clear aggression against innocent people, not their religious convictions.

Douthat believes that there is a full scale war being waged by secularists against the free expression of Judaism and Christianity (in particular) outside of house of worship walls, and gets into some reasons for the attack on the first liberty area mentioned in the First Amendment.

One of their documents contains elaborate directions for the organization of an army to fight against the «Sons of Darkness,» It moves largely in the realms of fantasy, but there is no reason to doubt that these sectaries did look forward to a final war of liberation ending with the triumph of the Jewish people over all their enemies.

Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler, by Mark Riebling (Basic Books): It's scandalous that this deeply - researched study of Pius XII's involvement in plots to depose Adolf Hitler has been largely ignored by the mainstream press, but the reason why isn't hard to guess — Church of Spies confounds the «Hitler's Pope» rubbish that Catholic - bashers find useful.

You made yourself a terrorist apologist when you equated my country's actions in the war on terror to terrorism itself and suggested the fight against terror is the reason why it is spreading.

There were NOT sufficient reasons to unleash a war against Iraq.

Only if «extraordinarily strong reasons» exist «for overriding the presumption in favor of peace and against war» may war be considered.

Such political and legal considerations are reason enough not to start war against Iraq.

The story is true to history, of course, in that former President Nixon declared political and even legal war against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam Wwar against The New York Times and The Washington Post for myriad reasons, including the publishing of government secrets exposing lies about the Vietnam WarWar.

For this reason Luther sided against the peasants in the Peasants» War, and gave added religious sanction to a social stratification which is still much in evidence in European society.

Human sin is the reason for every war, murder, racism, hate, terrorism, rape and every type of offense against another human being.

As we have seen in the case of Frederick II, the reasons that kings and emperors, even those at war with the papacy, listed heresy first among the crimes against the state were several and profound.

Specifically he notes how he refused to entertain the arguments against military action in the run - up to the Iraq war, even when articulated by card - carrying conservatives, because his hatred of terrorists and liberals outran his reason.

Xi Jinping's still waging a war against the sport as Mao had done decades prior, shuttering 110 courses across China just last year for reasons ranging from corruption to being too close to a water reservoir.

the reason for the court's blocking of a travel restriction put in place by the President of the United States of America for purposes of national security was because the president (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what they preach

The reason why there is an assumption that the Republicans won't vote against Trump in unanimous lockstep, like they did as a matter of policy with Obama, is if the Congressional Republicans basically declare war on their own party leader, no one but the Dems can win (given their track record, that's not a given, either), short or long term.

President Obama who represents the reasoned Pro Government forces in Washington, DC, has attempted to make reasonable and painful concessions to the «Anti Govs» who are being allowed to blackmail our President with this outrageous and obstructionist scorched earth policy in their war against Pro Gov. forces.

But these two reasons alone don't seem to be sufficient, because the attitude to the Second World War in general seems to be totally different in the two countries, not just with regard to «crimes against humanity».

He said, «The truth is that Captain Iheanacho for obvious political reasons has continued to sustain his media attacks against the governor and the few opponents of the government in the state have leveraged on that to be giving the impression that Okorocha and Iheanacho are at war, when they are not.»

The reason dates back to the Napoleonic wars, when blockades against the British made sugarcane scarce throughout Europe.

Guns Of The Patriots takes place 5 years after Sons Of Liberty, where The Patriots control the War Economy, where random PMCs do war against one another for no reason other than that the Patriots have ordered them War Economy, where random PMCs do war against one another for no reason other than that the Patriots have ordered them war against one another for no reason other than that the Patriots have ordered them to.

Shannon, cast against type as the voice of unpretentious reason, gives one of those totally relatable performances for which he has a secret talent, rescuing The Current War one scene at a time from its fairy - tale genius - worship of Edison and the mystical dandy Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult).

Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa / Black Panther, who anchored his own marvelous feature just a few months ago, is reduced to a glorified field general in «Infinity War,» standing alongside Okoye (Danai Gurira) and M'Baku (Winston Duke) and watching Thanos» troops burn, trample, and otherwise disfigure the countryside (an image that's more upsetting, for various reasons, than a lot of Thanos» violence against individuals).

The creativity of the toy designs is one of the key reasons I keep coming back to Skylanders year after year, and second - greatest weapon Activision has in the war against almost every body else making toy games these days.

Throughout Infinity War, the Avengers and friends are fighting against Thanos, who wants to destroy half the life in the universe for what are frankly economically unsound reasons.

Both Packouz and Diveroli claim they are against the Iraq war, but see no reason why they can't profit off it.

Through him we enter the conflicted mind of a warrior as he tries to survive against all odds, as he seeks to make sense of a lifetime of senseless wars and to reckon with the reasons a man would choose a life on the battlefield.

Norman Osborn and his partner, the villainous Asgardian Loki, don't want it there, though for differing reasons, and in the current «Siege» mini-series by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Olivier Copiel, the duo is waging war against the Asgardians for control of their city.

Memorable storyline - Set against the backdrop of a world war, Gunther, Alicia, Largo and the rest of the fierce members of Squad 7 fight for personal reasons in the name of freedom, and the hope against all odds of liberating Gallia from Empire control, all in the face of the terrible realities of war.

I want to stress again that I have no hate against this game and that all of my complaints could be easily thrown at other AAA hack and slash titles, but the reason I don't go writing about all of them is because they stay in their little spot in the genre (God of War, Dante's Inferno, Castlevania LoS, & Darksiders to an extent) while DMC has always been over with games like Ninja Gaiden or Bayonetta.

There could have been a lot of good reasons why we would choose to forego our humanity, become a cyborg, and war against the natural inhabitants of the planet, but they didn't choose those.

EA confirms that Star Wars: Battlefront 2 failed to meet its sales targets, citing the backlash against the game's loot boxes as a reason.

(He had is own War on Christmas, and didn't have a Christmas tree in the White House, some say because he was against chopping them down for frivolous reasons.)

After a bit of research I realized that the amount of heat (while awesome) was pathetically small and that, by comparing it to volcanoes, instead of warming we would get cooling from the dust throw up (this was before Nuclear Winter was put forward as a compelling reason against limited nuclear war).

Article 1 (F) provides that the Convention does not apply if there are serious reasons for considering that a person has committed a crime against peace, a war crime or a crime against humanity (1F (a)-RRB-, a serious nonpolitical crime (1F (b)-RRB- or acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations (1F -LRB-(c)-RRB-.

It excludes people from refugee protection where there are serious reasons for considering that they have committed a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity.

The case concerns the interpretation of Article 1F (a) of the 1951 Refugee Convention, which excludes people from refugee protection where there are serious reasons for considering that they have committed a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity.