Word: mortality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of its own practitioners came to recognize, communism was a bum idea. In the U.S.S.R., it barely survived the threescore years and 10 that the Bible prescribes as the mortal life-span. Its passing should free our "striving spirit" to concentrate on all sorts of other challenges, such as the growing conflict between the haves and the have-nots and the need to refine liberal democracy, not just in places like Sri Lanka but in the developed world as well. So Fukuyama can cheer up. The continuation of history will be plenty interesting...
...solidify their faith? To show dramatically that God took such an interest in his creation? The Incarnation, as C.S. Lewis wrote, was the greatest of Christian miracles, the profound transaction in which the Word became flesh. God, the principle of eternity, becomes one with the human, earthly and mortal. The birth sanctified all human birth...
...miracles do not have to top themselves from one year to the next. Secular miracles become obsolete: the first silent movies were miraculous. Then the talkies were miraculous. Then television. When miracles can be superseded by new miracles, they have descended from the realm of the absolute. Miracles become mortal...
...mortal enemies in this debate don't even widely disagree after all the emotions are removed. The anti-ROTC types are not out to oppose militarism, and they support military scholarships for higher education. The pro-ROTC types are not out to oppose homosexuality, and they support the movement to change the Department of Defense policy prohibiting homosexuals...
...cannot help but wonder if Wasinger had a gay daughter or son just how lightly he would take their struggle with all of these things, or if he and those he claims share his version of a "metaphysical reality" would recognize, finally, that it is not through metaphysics, but mortal ignorance that one might presume to know what is right and best for those they know next to nothing about...