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Charlie Hebdo, of course, used humor precisely to challenge sacred cows.
Today's Islamic revival shares the dogmatism, communitarianism, and scripturalism of American evangelist movements: both reject culture, philosophy, and even theology to favor a literalist reading of sacred texts and an immediate understanding of truth through individual faith.
And this implies a willingness to attack many of the establishment’s sacred cows – particularly the free rein given to financial institutions, the bias toward austerity policies, the jaundiced view of government’s role in the economy, the unhindered movement of capital around the world, and the fetishization of international trade.
However, in a world of strategic competition, international commerce can be, and usually is, an instrument of policy, and its use in that context should not be denied simply because it breaches the sacred principle of free trade.
In the short term, the liability union is to be implemented by the European Central Bank, whose independence will once again be held up as sacred in Berlin, providing a European fig leaf for Germany’s domestic-policy priorities.
Islam never experienced something akin to the Reformation in Europe; the lines between the sacred and the secular are unclear and contested.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer falsely accused of treason in 1894, was such a polarizing figure in France because his opponents saw him as symbol of national decadence, of a nation whose sacred identity was being diluted by alien blood.
But, in much of the developed world, we have foresworn that sacred pledge.
They reject the widely accepted view, based on early sacred texts, that ancient believers did not ban the slaughter of cattle, and that such a ban probably became part of the Hindu moral code only around the fifth and sixth centuries AD, when the later Puranas were written.
They claim that the early British scholars and administrators who documented Indian customs and translated the early sacred texts were bamboozled by the Brahmins--the first Indians to learn English and thus the only available intermediaries--into believing that the Hindu social order was caste-based.
China’s African FrontDAKAR – China’s sacred text is not a holy book like the Torah, the Bible, or the Koran.
In Morocco and Jordan, the king is considered a descendant of the Prophet, and Saudi Arabia’s king is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina, Islam’s most sacred sites.
Reforming Japan’s Constitution“Reform with no sacred cows” was Junichiro Koizumi’s slogan when he became prime minister five years ago, and no cow here is more sacred than our “peace” constitution.
Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, was supposed to have been born on Mount Paektu, believed to be a sacred spot where the divine founder of the first Korean kingdom, a bear-man named Tangun, was born more than 4,000 years ago.
Indeed, at its core is a sense of ethnic purity, a feeling of sacred nationalism that must be defended at any cost against hostile forces.
Defending the Kim dynasty, built up as a symbol of Korean resistance to foreign powers, is a sacred task.
And when the sacred takes over politics, compromise becomes almost impossible.
Nothing is sacred in business.
The result would be a catastrophe, not only for the Koreans who believe in Kim’s sacred mission, but above all for millions of Koreans, just 35 miles from the North Korean border, who have no part in the Kim cult at all.
We humans embrace the axiom that life is sacred in order to preserve what allowed that axiom to be formulated in the first place: consciousness and thought.
The basic value that life is sacred rests only on our ability to transcend and question our own making, even if this foundation is necessarily a product of life.
Instead, in his defense of the family – or, as he would put it, the sacred union between man and woman – he pointed out how sexual arrangements outside that union were a threat to human civilization.
It presupposed moral agnosticism and a plurality of meanings, none of which are sacred or compulsory to all.
Interpretation of religious texts is always in flux because the meaning of sacred texts are influenced by the age and changing conditions in which believers live.
And it certainly won’t reconcile the sacred with the secular.
Sacred PromisesJOHANNESBURG – A promise to the poor is particularly sacred.
A promise to the poor is particularly sacred.
With his over-familiarity, simplicity, and occasional vulgarity, Sarkozy undermined the dignity of his sacred function.
What good fortune it is that China's most sacred, encompassing, and powerful doctrine built around the triumvirate of "the interests of the majority of the people" "advanced culture," and "advanced productive forces" found one political party to be its representative!
No matter how harshly Russia’s “democrats” are abused, the word “democracy” remains a sacred cow.
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