These are [his] words: 'Woe to the rebellious children! Thus saith the Lord, You have taken counsel, but not through me; and [made] agreements, but not through my Spirit, to add sins to sins; who have sinned [287] in going down to Egypt (but they have not inquired at me), that they may be assisted by Pharaoh, and be covered with the shadow of the Egyptians. For the shadow of Pharaoh shall be a disgrace to you, and a reproach to those who trust in the Egyptians; for the princes in Tanis [288] are evil angels. In vain will they labour for a people which will not profit them by assistance, but [will be] for a disgrace and a reproach [to them]. ' [289] And, further, Zechariah tells, as you yourself have related, that the devil stood on the right hand of Joshua the priest, to resist him; and [the Lord] said, 'The Lord, who has taken [290] Jerusalem, rebuke thee. ' [291] And again, it is written in Job, [292] as you said yourself, how that the angels came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came with them.
And, when we've gotten involved in wars in the past, we had a draft and the people your age would be drafted, and they'd be sent off to war, right? You are going to have to go off. You are going to have to live on a battlefield. You are going to have to risk your life. And many people did in fact risk their lives, lived in hardship every single day and finally died. Why? Because they were defending what? Our country and defending its freedom. They had to go through hardship, didn't they, for the sake of freedom. The principle of freedom is that our rights come from God. Do you think it's wrong to ask people to make sacrifices to keep our respect for that principle? … But I don't believe it is right to take that pain and actually make it worse … do you know what I'm adding if I let you have an abortion? I'm adding the burden of that abortion. And at some point, the truth of God that is written on your heart comes back to you. And you're wounded by that truth. So I don't think it's fair, not to the child and not to the woman, to let this tragedy claim both their lives; the physical life of the child and the moral and spiritual life of the mother.
☭ Friedrich Engels ' introduction to 1891 edition of Karl Marx's, The Civil War in France It is above all over the question of the State that socialists are divided. Two main currents can be discerned in the factions that exist among us which correspond to differences in temperament as well as in ways of thinking, but above all to the extent that one believes in the coming revolution. There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming. The latter work to abolish the State and not to reform it. Ⓐ Peter Kropotkin, The State — Its Historic Role (1897) Socialism is divided into three main trends: reformism, anarchism and Marxism.
And we have it recorded by Moses in the beginning of Genesis, that the serpent beguiled Eve, and was cursed. And we know that in Egypt there were magicians who emulated [293] the mighty power displayed by God through the faithful servant Moses. And you are aware that David said, 'The gods of the nations are demons. '" [294] by ⳩ Tertullian c. 200 A. D., translated by Sydney Thelwall Chapter XVIII. —Dress as Connected with Idolatry. But the purple, or the other ensigns of dignities and powers, [5] dedicated from the beginning to idolatry engrafted on the dignity and the powers, carry the spot of their own profanation; since, moreover, bordered and striped togas, and broad-barred ones, are put even on idols themselves; and fasces also, and rods, are borne before them; and deservedly, for demons are the magistrates of this world: they bear the fasces and the purples, the ensigns of one college. Chapter XIX. —Concerning Military Service. There is no agreement between the divine and the human sacrament, [2] the standard of Christ and the standard of the devil, the camp of light and the camp of darkness.