Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Should a Christian church under a Communist regime resist, and be driven underground? Or should it bow to the state for the sake of continuing as an organized entity? Or something in between? These are not academic questions in China and Poland, in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania, whose Christians sometimes feel that their Western brethren may be a bit too impatient for a new age of catacombs...
Those who resist progress--even temporary progress--because of its novelty, are behaving as immaturely as those who follow each passing fancy. There is no absolute standard for Femininity more than for any other value in nature. Ultimately, let us hope that with our assistance our feminine comrades will be set free from the bonds of vanity--the "improvement" of surface beauty by cosmetics, long hair, falsies, etc.--as we ourselves were, only two hundred years ago. David Drake...
...unto you that ye resist not evil...
...Sermon on the Mount, with its advice not to resist evil, to turn the other cheek and to love one's enemies, according to Father Messineo, was meant for individuals only, not collective groups. "It is the inalienable right of a collectivity to defend its integrity and existence against unjust aggression . . . The citizen has the duty to render the society to which he belongs . . . the indispensable service of picking up arms and fighting to the utmost of his fully exploited capabilities in defense of his community menaced by unjust aggression." Conscientious objectors, he warned, "are guilty of Lucifer-like...
...Berry said that medical schools were "very sick" financially. While he emphasized urgent need of federal aid, he added. "With an adequate core of its own money a school can successfully resist unwarranted political interference or government control...