My point is that it doesn't make any more sense to take a passage like John 3 16 (you must be born again) and universalize it as the basis for drawing lines separating who's in and who's out than it does to do this with a passage like Matthew 25.
If the complaint about "Bloodlands" was that Snyder made the Holocaust a local event, this book is meant to universalize it again, with the understanding that what is universal in human experience is what is local and political.
Secular people should be offended because it's an attempt to deceptively rename an inherently religious symbol, in an effort to universalize it so more people adopt it.
Alas for General Shinseki, members of the elite infantry group that already wears black berets, the Rangers, oppose the move to universalize it.
"We wanted to destigmatize it so no one thinks that they are being singled out because they are having a problem, but rather to universalize it so that it is clear that it's a problem affecting everyone".
The parallel and hostile German states and regional alliances institutionalized and militarized the Cold War even as the Communist ideological offensive and the Truman Doctrine had universalized it.
This is contrary to the intent of the ICDS program of universalizing access to food supplements, but it is in line with the Bihar government's guidelines for a targeted approach.
sought to universalize its issues through imposing its own colonial feminism on..
The government introduced a subsidized "30-baht plan" in 2001 with the intention of universalizing access to healthcare.
Stemming from the acronym N.E.S.H.A., No one Ever Slows Her Agenda started out as my personal motto but now it's my mission to universalize that motto to young women across America.
All public education was made free, and strong efforts were made to universalize primary education, to upgrade technical and vocational education, and to improve the quality of education generally.
