[ExI] English-speaking Google News and Myanmar (Burma)

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:04 AM 5/19/2008 -0700, PJ wrote:

>"According to Samuel Eliot Morison's Oxford History of the American
>People, the Puritans 'were deeply impressed by a story that their
>favorite church father, St. Augustine, told in his Confessions. He
>heard a voice saying, tolle et lege, 'Pick up and read.' Opening the
>Bible, his eyes lit on Romans xiii:12-14: 'The night is far spent, the
>day is at hand; not in carousing and drunkenness, not in debauchery
>and lust, not in strife <snip>
>
>Doesn't say anything in Augustine's quote about refraining from
>violence.  Just sex.

"Strife" sounds like violence to me.

Granted, in the context, not *military* violence (Yahweh was a battle 
god) but the kind stirred up by intoxication, sexual excitement and 
jealousy. Still, isn't that the kind mostly portrayed in movies?

Damien Broderick