Underlying everything within American politics and life is the race issue, or "negro question.... " The racial issue is one of the most temper-fueled discussions in our history. ... " So it is difficult to simplify things in the manner that West does. ... He does not believe that simply sitting around and praying things will be better. ... If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him" (Baldwin, 61). ...

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Families are affiliated with a certain church in their community and use the church greatly and widely for many things. ... The country's probably most well-known motto "In God We Trust" can be found on every dollar bill2. ... Like any person through the course of their life, Jefferson's personal opinions on religion changed as he aged, but "through all the changes in the evolution of Jefferson's faith, there was at least one point of consistency, a devotion to the ideal of religious liberty."15 Jefferson's conceptualization of God leaned more towards a Natural philosoph...

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Now there is some hot discussion among politicians if to support a war, probably even without a UN mandate; e.g. the German government is clearly opposing those plans. ... Despite expressing his will to arrange things with the United Nations by announcing a presentation of new evidence to the Security Council he still affirms that the USA will disarm Saddam on their own, too. ... He concludes with stressing the importance of liberty, which he depicts as God's gift to humanity and asks God for blessing and guidance. ... The parallel structure of the sentence is to point to the similari...

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His dualistic philosophy imagined two worlds, the civitas terrenae and the civitas dei, the City of Earth and the City of God. ... The latter, the ideal civitas dei, is achieved through the transformation of cupiditas into caritas, which is love directed toward God. ... It is this balancing of good and evil actions that lead to the questions of proportionality and double effect. ... This is the ultimate act of love in this argument: repairing a flawed relationship between the conquered and God.6 Now that we have established the origins of the theory, we must define what is meant by war. ......

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This has been the case throughout human history, where the masses have always had a desire to follow a leader, or worship a God, allowing individuals to use this susceptibility to their advantage creating dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. ... However, in his speech, Obama addressed the fourth standard by taking away the blame from Muslims when he said, "Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic'. ... " In his essay, Huxley creates an analogy strikingly similar to President Obama's speech on ISIS when he said, "Fifty years ago, w...

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