Word: righteously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tragic struggle to fight back against the dead eyes of the Harvard networking machine, I can’t help but think that I may have thrown hundreds of babies out with their bath water. My overzealous self-righteous condemnation of meeting people for the sake of meeting people, has, predictably, caused me to meet no one. But what...
...famous "arrogance of power" is cross-grained, and self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness - which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each...
...many, many answers. But of all the ways we have changed since Sept. 11, the most heartening lies in what we believe about ourselves. And what we believe in—or, better, what we have remembered to believe in—is the ideal of America as a righteous nation dedicated to the defeat of evil...
...neutral between them." It is no small matter that on that very bad night in September, when a shaken nation beheld an evil it supposed could not exist, this president chose to quote a psalm invoking God’s protection of the righteous. Yea, though we walked through the valley of the shadow of death, we would fear no evil...
...defended it with our blood. The America of our fathers was, first, a spiritual society, and it built a democracy on the proposition that God wanted mankind to be free. Only very recently did this belief go out of vogue, when our parents’ generation inherited a righteous superpower and rejected its moral grounding like the spoiled sons of a self-made millionaire. Yet here we are in this new world where “God Bless America” is no cliché and the kites of Kabul tell us that what we have can bless others...