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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to…
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission…
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries…
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
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The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human…
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of…
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral…
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When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
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As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how…
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings.…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
— Benazir Bhutto
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I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is…
— Benazir Bhutto
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might…
— Noam Chomsky
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Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
— Hillary Clinton
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it…
— Ajahn Brahm
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable…
— Winston Churchill
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the…
— Tony Blair
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Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can…
— Jeff Bridges
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But…
— Demosthenes
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We need a more authoritative world...What's the alternative to democracy? There isn't one. But even the best democracies agree that when a…
— James Lovelock
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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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