The Stakes of Hizballah’s Next War with Israel
Peril and opportunity.
November 7, 2017
Religion and the crisis of the democratic state of mind.
Giving his state-of-the-union address in 1939, as war clouds gathered over Europe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt stressed that people must “prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments, and their very civilization are founded.” Michael Gerson sees in these words an understanding, now largely been lost, of what is necessary for America to endure:
Peril and opportunity.
Centralization of power, perhaps as a prerequisite to reform.
Or does such logic apply only to Israel?
Religion and the crisis of the democratic state of mind.
“I’m not out to persuade you.”
Giving his state-of-the-union address in 1939, as war clouds gathered over Europe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt stressed that people must “prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments, and their very civilization are founded.” Michael Gerson sees in these words an understanding, now largely been lost, of what is necessary for America to endure:
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