In our efforts to find terrorists and bring them to justice, whether the crime at hand is 9/11 or the bombing of the Boston Marathon, it's worth taking a step back, and perhaps a collective deep breath too, to consider how righteous fury can sometimes cloud our ability to see and do what's right.
Even socially conscious songwriters romanticise the gun if they consider the cause righteous.
Partly, it has to do with the coincidence of two seismic political debates, over Europe and the Labour party, wherein participants on both sides consider their cause righteous, and their rivals' an existential threat.
When all peaceful means have been exhausted, rather than letting the unbridled tyranny, senseless brutalization and death of innocent masses continue, it is considered righteous for a Sikh, even while he/she is to live a saintly life, to rise up as a soldier in defense of the weak, oppressed and the defenseless.
Calvin says 'God's will is so much the highest rule of righteousness that whatever he wills, by the very fact that he wills it, must be considered righteous' (Institutes 3. 23. 2).
It is, however, one of the best point and shoots I've ever tested and that says a lot considering my righteous anger towards the point and shoot market.
Each group considered themselves righteous, the other group unclean and each built their own temple.
James 2 24: "You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone".
To wince in silence, or speak up and risk being considered self-righteous, PC, or a po-faced party pooper.
However, New York Daily News criticised her part for being half-naked throughout most of her appearance, considering that it was "an awfully strange way to make a righteous point about exploitation".
