To Falwell, it is axiomatic that his kind of people are the only righteous ones and that they will therefore face nothing but hostility from the rest of the world.
There are those who insist that the only "righteous jazz," as they call it, is performed by bands of no more than six or seven men whose music is as spontaneous, unpremeditated, and unrehearsed as that of Shelley's skylark.
Still, his belief that his methods are the only righteous solution to Thailand's problems is not in doubt.
Maybe they felt cornered and thought that reacting in the spirit of faith was the only righteous option they had left.
Narrative A, certainly recorded history's oldest, is that our enemies are out there; they're merciless; and only righteous, unswerving resolve will defeat them.
You're more self-righteous, that's all".
These positions stood against the ecclesiological principles of his own party, the Donatists, which held that the true church can contain only the righteous and that such a church was visibly manifest chiefly, if not solely, in the Donatists of Africa.
Kabbalists believe that only through righteous acts, known as tikkun, humans can restore that Light, repairing the world and returning us to the paradise that existed at the time of the Garden of Eden.
And that is the only thing that still gives me a shot at achieving righteous indignation.
These killers go unpunished and they don't even experience stigma in a society that considers their actions not only justified, but righteous.
