"Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive.……" — David Novak
"Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral."
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55 Quotes by David Novak
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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…
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question…
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us…
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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:…
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law…
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological…
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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…
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as…
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Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the…
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More Coercion Quotes
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary…
— Ayn Rand
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
— Milton Friedman
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
— Milton Friedman
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