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Tony Abbott |
" It seems that much of the Muslim world is yet to accept
that pluralism is more than a necessary evil. One factor, it
seems, is that Islam does not readily distinguish between what
belongs to God and Caesar." Tony
Abbott, February 21, 2003 Australian Minister of Employment
and Workplace Relations |
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George Bush Jnr |
" Americans are a free people, who know that freedom
is the right of every person and the future of every nation.
The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it
is God's gift to humanity... We Americans have faith in ourselves—but
not in ourselves alone. We do not claim to know all the ways
of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence
in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history."
President
George Bush Jnr, State of the Union speech, 2003, at the Atlantic
Monthly (with translation) |
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Legality of
Invasion |
" As a Christian and as a president who was severely
provoked by international crises, I became thoroughly familiar
with the principles of a just war, and it is clear that a substantially
unilateral attack on Iraq does not meet these standards. This
is an almost universal conviction of religious leaders, with
the most notable exception of a few spokesmen for the Southern
Baptist Convention who are greatly influenced by their commitment
to Israel, based on eschatological, or final-days, theology."
ex
President Jimmy Carter, March 16, 2003, The Age |
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Barry Goldwater |
" We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs
of state separate
from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we
mustn't stop
now," he insisted. "To retreat from that separation
would violate the
principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers
built this
democratic republic." attributed
to Senator Barry Goldwater 1981 |
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Just War |
" Just war doctrine has at its root the Catholic
understanding of original sin, articulated in this context by
St. Augustine in Book XIX of “The City of God”. In
this world, Christians will always have to cope with the evil
in the human breast that sows division, destruction, and devastation..."
Michael
Novak, American Enterprise Institute, February 10, 2003 |
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good vs. evil |
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religion