Sentences with phrase «when culture wars»

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When told by Business Insider that the show may satirize him, Infowars editor and polemical culture wars vlogger Paul Joseph Watson said «the fact that they have to resort to satirizing me in a comedy show proves that they're struggling to combat me with actual logical arguments.

Rehabilitation here means not that of individual criminals but of entire societies that have suffered war or dictatorship, as when supporters of international tribunals describe punishment as «overcoming a culture of impunity.»

Brooks warns contemporary Christians that when we try to engage in public life, we are perceived as prosecuting a «culture war,» one that has «alienated large parts of three generations» of Americans, turning «a rich, complex, and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex.»

Although the book reminds us of a time when deep social divisiveness was not at the core of the culture wars, was he right to suggest that religion was an under - acknowledged party in American discussions about pluralism?

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

By his words and deeds, John Allen concluded, Francis has «debunked impressions of a rift with the American bishops when it comes to the «wars of culture.

The culture - wars thesis correctly brings to our attention the potential for societal conflict when rival and incompatible moral worldviews collide.

Patrick Buchanan brought the glare of the national spotlight to the phrase «culture war» when he used his address to the 1992 Republican National Convention to declare a «war for the nation's soul.»

What if we were just as much against colonization, imperialism, and war, as you are, and that when we told people about Jesus and His love for them, we let them maintain their culture, their identity, and who they were as people?

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

(Hat tip: Notes on the Culture Wars and LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH) When it comes to secret societies of the wealthy and powerful elites bent on one - world government, I prefer The Pentavirate: So I Married An Axe Murderer (Colonel Sanders scene)....

All I am asking is that you stop sidestepping, that you stop saying, «I choose not reveal, because the culture war is so bad already [and so on and so forth]» when the truth is, you actually haven't arrived at a conclusion.

During World War II the persecuted Christians threw a ringing challenge at comfortable, culture - adapted Christianity when they declared: «The first duty of the church is to be the church.»

Similarly, in response to Wednesday's post, I heard from Christians on «Side A» as well as Christians on «Side B» who were united in their desire to move beyond a culture war mentality when it comes to homosexuality.

The talk of the culture war issues might have been secondary to the lines about the economy, but when you look at what they have actually done, little of the work has been related to the economy and most has been items important to social conservatives.

So when one learns that the Synod of Catholic cardinals and bishops summoned by the same Pope has returned the conversation to the culture wars of the West — though with unmistakable overtones of capitulation on many of the bishops» part — it is, to say no more, a disappointment.

The Guardian: Mali: no rhythm or reason as militants declare war on music When a rabble of different Islamist groups took control of northern Mali in April there were fears that its rich culture would suffer.

This was an era when American evangelicals hitched their wagon to the Republican Party and set out to wage a culture war for the soul of America.

When every infraction is an incitement to the culture war and when every offense is outrageous, we often fall prey to the fatigue of outrWhen every infraction is an incitement to the culture war and when every offense is outrageous, we often fall prey to the fatigue of outrwhen every offense is outrageous, we often fall prey to the fatigue of outrage.

«Culture Wars Go Nuclear,» proclaimed Gary Bauer's e-mail newsletter when the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in favor of same - sex marriage in 2003.

And why are we giving the culture of Washington new powers of life and death» making ourselves «God's Partners,» in President Obama's language» at a time when that culture has proved itself so vague and so deluded about all the issues of life and death that have come before it: war, and embryos, and the unborn, and the weak, and the vulnerable?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

And when we see what God is doing, we can join with culture in standing against war, hunger, and other forms of inhumanity, but infusing such stands with the principles of the Gospel and the example of Jesus Christ (Resident Aliens, 46 - 47).

When the president made the NFL a new front in the divisive politics of the culture war, it sent team owners into a panic.

Of course, the idea of a «War on Christmas» is terminally silly in a culture saturated with Christmas messaging (as I write this, the radio at the coffeeshop I'm in is tuned to a channel that'll play nothing BUT Christmas songs for the next couple of weeks), but what the heck — martial metaphors work quite well when you want to get folks fired up.

Culture is ingrained within each of us and is strong enough to persist even when situations change such as when new states emerge or new issues — including climate change or nuclear war — come to the forefront of the agenda.

This historical strategic culture was shaken to its core during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union became capable of conducting devastating nuclear strikes on U.S. territory, which ceased to be a sanctuary.

Utterly gratuitous photo of the Extra Grumpy Cat When Barack Obama crossed the nerd - culture streams in his Jedi Mind Meld moment last week, he created great joy on the internets: by combining the Star Wars Jedi Mind Trick and the Star Trek Vulcan Mind Meld into a single entity, he not only caused...

Following Pat Buchanan's «culture wars» speech at the Republican National Convention in Houston, the board of Log Cabin decided to withhold its endorsement when President George H.W. Bush failed to criticize the anti-gay rhetoric heard at the convention.

Remember the «alternate Queen's Speech» of 2013, when Tory MPs like Peter Bone, Philip Hollobone and Christopher Chope put forward a radical right wing agenda in the «culture war» mode?

When the civil war ended and the republicans lost, the new fascist regime wanted Spain as «one big and free», so they tried to eliminate every cultural manifestation from this historical regions, banning the use of other languages other than the Spanish, killing writers, artists, defenders of their culture and making it look like if you were talking basque, Catalan, or Galician you will be evil or dumb.

When war breaks out and American soldiers attempt to negotiate with foreign militias or civilians, culture - based notions of honor and revenge can lead to deadly misunderstandings.

And when I say «war» in this post, I mean also militarism, the culture of war, the armies, arms, industries, policies, plans, propaganda, prejudices, rationalizations that make lethal group conflict not only possible but also likely

So certain factual claims get laid aside in the heat, when bioethical disputes move up to culture war level.

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

Synopsis: A campus culture war between blacks and whites at a predominantly white school comes to a head when the staff of a humor magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.

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At a time when a virtual war on women has rocketed to the front lines of the great American culture wars, it's a stunning indication of exactly how out of touch with reality are those who would be our leaders that The Hunger Games books have been so wildly successful.

What Moby - Dick, my favorite work of art in any medium, meant to the scornful audiences who ignored it in 1851 is not the same as what it meant a full century later, in the midst of the Cold War, which is when that novel finally started to make sense to the culture at large.

And it gives you an opportunity to learn about Irish culture and what America was like just after World War II, which is when it is set.

Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.

A novel with Charlie Chaplin at its center, capturing the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.

I was curious about their experience during World War I, when their native country and culture was vilified as the home of Huns, brutes and monsters.

From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans» other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City

Road trip Cuba in a vintage American car and witness authentic culture lost to progress for generations when economic development in Cuba came to a standstill with the Cold War in the 1960's.

Rapid industrialization was transforming culture in the inter war period which was when Deco emerged.

1999 And when Rudy Giuliani launches his crusade against this painting, it marks the end of the culture war...

Was it around the Second World War, when European emigrés including Man Ray, Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht revitalised Californian culture?

The show is far better and more enlivening when they are not fixated on such guilt, as in the Neue Galerie, the key venue for the show in Kassel, which tells a more complex story encompassing the continuing legacy of European colonialism, the trauma of World War II, and the politics of representing people of other cultures.