honorers

There are no greater lovers of right, honorers of industry, and friends to education in the world than its people, yet the present social condition of Holyoke and of Lowell, as of many other manufacturing cities, would have shocked all America thirty years ago, and been impossible less than half a century back.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

Blount knew neither the honorers nor the honored ones, and had resolutely refused the chance offered him by Mrs. Beverley to amend his ignorance.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

oddly enough, the ‘honorers’ of the sacred texts view ‘cold peace’ as violence. in fact, they seem to view anything less than ‘honor’ for the text as ‘hot war.’ when these texts are not available for worship, evangelization, or other forms of ‘honor,’ in public school, say, it is viewed as suppression or book banning.

War, Peace, and Texts James F. McGrath 2009

oddly enough, the ‘honorers’ of the sacred texts view ‘cold peace’ as violence. in fact, they seem to view anything less than ‘honor’ for the text as ‘hot war.’ when these texts are not available for worship, evangelization, or other forms of ‘honor,’ in public school, say, it is viewed as suppression or book banning.

Archive 2009-10-01 James F. McGrath 2009

oddly enough, the ‘honorers’ of the sacred texts view ‘cold peace’ as violence. in fact, they seem to view anything less than ‘honor’ for the text as ‘hot war.’ when these texts are not available for worship, evangelization, or other forms of ‘honor,’ in public school, say, it is viewed as suppression or book banning.

Can There Be A Just War...Against A Text? James F. McGrath 2009