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"I have a commitment to the Prince of Peace, not the prince of preemptive war In political rhetoric "preemptive war" may also be used to refer to preventive war
Preemptive war (or preemptive attack) is waged in an attempt to repel or defeat a perceived imminent offensive or invasion, or to gain a strategic advantage in an impending (allegedly
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, commenting on his religious differences with some other evangelical Christians This is a list of people who are notable due to their influence on the popularity or development of evangelical Christianity or for their professed Evangelicalism.

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  • John Bunyan, (1628 - 1688) - persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of
, including o few in the Bush administration (Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist.  Monitor, Nov. 4, 2005)

"Is it just his way of snubbing his nose at us? He's got such beautiful religious art inside. Why can't he put those out?"

--Chicago parishioner Esperanza Godinos, complaining about a local developer's life-size reproductions of French Impressionist nudes in the windows of a building across the street from her parish (Chicago Journal, Nov. 9, 2005)

"Are you a cutter? A snipper? Or are you a Jewish identity Jewish identity is the subjective state of perceiving oneself as as a Jew and as relating to being Jewish. Jewish identity, by this definition, does not depend on whether or not a person is regarded as a Jew by others, or by an external set of religious, or legal, or sociological  facilitator?"

--Rabbi Don Rob/show ot the onnuol meeting of the Notionol Organizaton of American Mohalim, the trade group of Jewish ritual circumcisers (Chicago Tribune, Nov. 3, 2005)

"Obviously, it's God's will that the Sox win. But God's will can be thwarted by human freedom."

--Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, on the Chicago White Sox' chance of winning the World Series, which they did in four games (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 23, 2005)
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