Word: preach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Welch decided to form an information service for the American people. John Birch is an educational institution," McManus says. "We preach less government, more responsibility and, with God's help, a better world to live in. We are therefore opposed to communism, but we are just as much opposed to collectivism." McManus defines collectivism to be "big government, small people...socialism...
...That's what it has to be. People can't be allowed to get away with killing." Counters Amsterdam: "The answer can hardly be found in a literal application of the eye-for-an-eye formula. We do not burn down arsonists' houses." The scriptures do preach mercy as well as retribution. Last Saturday, in fact, Pope John Paul II sweepingly recommended "clemency, or pardon, for those condemned to death...
According to Strickland. Falwell told his Yale audience last year that "he would relish the idea of coming to Harvard to preach his wayward religion...
...Catholic Church, and indeed all churches, has preached peace across the centuries and has never achieved it. That is no reason why they should not continue to preach the message and to try to change mankind. That is their vocation. But peace has never been achieved, even for a while, by moral inspiration alone. It has always required the highly imperfect, compromise-ridden and impure actions of political leaders. The dilemma potentially posed by the bishops' strivings is that reaching for the best could undermine the good, and that striving for the ideal might undermine the practical. -By Richard...
...hesitate to preach to protesting groups how they should make their protest known.... Obviously I would hope they would do it peacefully. I would hope they would also understand that if they're really trying to achieve some change in policy that the people responsible for policy are going to be impressed by argument, not by rhetoric or demonstrations of various kinds.... We're not very impressed, particularly on matters of principle, by demonstrations that rely on rhetoric or noise or ridicule...