............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ...original King James version, proscribed killing, the Jews would have been pacifists and would be against capital punishment. So was the original Kin... ...of Jesus‘s pacifism?‖ —―Hindus and Buddhists are more likely to be pacifists because all life is sacred and part of the totality of god. Just...

...trements. The rich have a huge amount of money to spend on such things as French perfume, designer clothes, and high tech computers. The young chi... ...ut such equality has only been found in the monasteries and convents of the Christians and Buddhists. --―In the West, laws and unions have gi... ...l blessings and support of God. You Americans have been the most militant pacifists in the history of the world. ―It is our belief that democ... ...brought a newer form of monotheism, the Romans tortured them. Then when the Christians rose to power they tortured the unbelievers. Islam conquered N... ... ―This direct appeal to the electorate has aided us in not having the French or American style of special interest protests, such as the French... .... This is the real world! People live longer. People will work longer. The French may riot for earlier retirement. But the government can‘t afford i... ... more diversity, it can get into the way of progress. Having more Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Falun Gongs gives more competing ideas as to how s...

...nothing but this even briefly and had been nowhere but this dead surrogate French capital all of her life. Chapter Seven It was never much more... ... "Of New Orleans." "He was born here to a family of degenerative French aristocrats. We met in Florida when he was a plumber." "What b... ...e an Indian?" "Yes." "Are you on the side of the English or the French settlers?" "Neither." "Chuckles has issued a warrant for yo... ...sh ceiling lights turned on at 6:00 in the shelter, and the mandates of a Christian organization compelling the exodus of these “guests” onto trash s... ...w long can I maintain an atheistic stance? I am half calling to Him now. Christians would claim Him humbling me to bring me to the light, if I had ... ...ristians would claim Him humbling me to bring me to the light, if I had a Christian as a friend, if I had any friend. Chuckles pulled the plug on th... ...s that domineer over and suffocate a life. We should be careful as gentle pacifists not to condemn violence for, you see, it is a component of histo...

... The earliest symbol of Christianity also represents a Big Bang: it represents the huge expans... ...reaking is that it successfully explains the idea of Intelligent Design which Christian fundamentalists use in trying to refute the Big Bang Theory o... ...of Science. This chapter not only answers the Intelligent Design theories of Christian Fundamentalists, it supports it. Except it supports it not ... ...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ... ...x did not like its skirts being besmirched with accusations by rich, affluent pacifists screaming at them to stop selling weapons to corrupt dictator...

...l comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperial... ... the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it wa... ...utler. Mater’s “Société des Nations” (Didier) is an able presentation of a French point of view. Brailsford’s “A League of Nations” is already a class... ...glish in Judge Mejdell’s “Jus Gentium,” published in English by Olsen’s of Christiania. There is an active League of Nations Society in Dublin, as wel... ...sts hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ours. So do some of the diplomatic French- men. The German junkers are dodging and lying, they are fighting de... ...llowed Mr. Burdett Coutts, in support of Mr. Burdett Coutts, with the most Christian disregard of the nasty things Mr. Burdett Coutts had seemed to be...

....? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition o...

...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...and the Future be met? In Macedonia there were T urkish villages that were Christian and Bulgarians that were Moslem. There were fami- lies that chang... ...he Yielding Pacifist and the Conscientious Objector. Of course, we are all pacifists nowadays; I know of no one who does not want not only to end this... ...most of the people I meet, and most of the people I met on my journey, are pacifists like myself who want to make peace by beating the armed man until... ... T ribunals to wrangle with the objectors about their bona fides. Then the Pacifists and the Pro-Germans issued little leaflets and started correspond... ... Wells (and usually the efficacy) of non-resistance. These are gener- ally Christians, and then their cardinal text is the instruction to “turn the ot... ...ehold; it seemed very anxious to escape from that appeal, and as I respect Christianity sufficiently to detest the identification of its services with...

...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ...on of peace. But there would be no appeal from such a beginning to the non-Christian majority of mankind, and the suggestion in itself indicates a pro... ...e suggestion in itself indicates a profound ignorance of the nature of the Christian churches. With the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sec... ...an churches. With the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Christian sect or church has ever repudiated war; most have gone out of the... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ...ee them shifting to the side of the at present negligible group of British pacifists. I do not think one can count on any limit to their selfishness a... ...e calculations of some of these extreme and apparently quite unreasonable “pacifists” are right. Be- fore the war is over there will be a lot of money... ...ry disturber, could the more readily sympathise with the passive school of Pacifists if its proposals involved the idea that England should keep to En...

... Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She went home, and that was th... ...rtisement painted on its roof. Ye Art Shoppe, Prop. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilks, Christian Science Library open daily free. A touching fumble at beauty. A o... ...bs of gilt—an aluminum ash-tray labeled “Greetings from Gopher Prairie” —a Christian Science magazine—a stamped sofa-cushion portraying a large rib- b... ...to give you a chance to get settled. I am Vida Sherwin, and I try to teach French and English and a few other things in the high school.” “I’ve been h... ...’ was the most interesting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warre... ...ven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid with the mirror and the loyal ears?” “Oh, wha... ...lves, they’re sedi- tious as the devil—disloyal, non-patriotic, pro-German pacifists, that’s what they are!” “Did this organizer say anything pro-Germ...

...l it shall be otherwise or dained by Congress; if a personal esteem for the French INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 14 nat... ...if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and call themselves Christians, and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for Chris... ...n of our Federal Govern ment. With the catastrophe in which the wars of the French Revolution terminated, and our own subsequent peace with Great Bri... ...justify me in expressing to my fellow citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious... ...the best means of promoting our own material inter ests, but in a spirit of Christian benevolence toward our fellow men, wherever their lot may be ca... ...e too much disturbed by the thought of either isolation or entangle ment of pacifists and militarists. The physical configu ration of the earth has ... ...Italy and the mountaineer in the Andes. It confers a common dignity upon the French INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 304 so...