Word: sovereignity
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There is indeed "only one sovereign Lord of all creation," no matter how far into the wild black yonder that creation exists. Far from quaking in our cassocks, Catholic priests welcome and bless those looking for life out there...
...different--its members are libertarians. Conservatives usually have a lot of religious neuroses--ideas about man being God's servant rather than an end in himself--and think that the 'rights of society' take precedence over individual rights in many cases. Libertarians don't--we think individual rights are sovereign. We are the New Right...
Although no one in the world community doubts the contributions of the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies, the U.N. can never fulfill its peace-keeping role as long as it is merely a collection of sovereign nations subject to big power veto -which is what it obviously is destined to remain. At best, the U.N. can shorten wars and arrange precarious truces. Lately it has not even been able to accomplish that. The comforting cliche about the U.N. is that it is better than nothing, that at least it provides a place where belligerents can talk. That remains true...
...infinity. In the process it would force him to re-examine some ancient questions. With his long heritage of Judeo-Christian culture, could Western man still be certain of his superior status in a God-created universe? Orthodox Christian theologians admit no doubts. There is, they insist, only one sovereign Lord of all creation, and he created man in his image. C.S. Lewis, prolific Protestant author and theologian, was not so sure. Faced with the discovery of rational, intelligent creatures elsewhere in space, he asked, how could mankind be so arrogant as to think itself uniquely favored by God? What...
...produce a report that sparkles with vivid, neatly turned insights. Plastered with fading banners left over from the Cultural Revolution, Canton "has a face of shabby militancy." The sight of people eagerly studying Maoist literature, Terrill suggests, "would surely delight an eighteenth-century philosophe; the 'Word' is sovereign." He was amused to find that brassières, "though widely available in shops, were not, it seemed, in frequent...