POLITICS
(See also Church and State; Governments; Nationalism; Neutrality; Patriotism; Reform; Rulers)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
Bible view: lvs 61-63, 97, 244; w16.04 28-30; w12 5/1 5-7; w10 7/1 22-25; w09 8/1 7-8; re 12-13; w01 10/15 4-7; rs 273
demonstrations: g93 2/8 18-19
diplomacy: g04 1/8 26-27
efforts to replace authorities: w90 11/1 21-22
independence movements: w18.06 4-5
Jesus’ attitude: w18.06 4-7; w12 5/1 5-6
political employment: w90 11/1 20-21
political violence: w18.06 6-7
Catholic Church:
Argentina: g87 4/22 6
Brazil: g87 4/22 7; w86 7/15 27
Canada: jv 680-681
comment by Jesuit professor: w92 3/1 7
efforts to avert nuclear war: w86 2/15 7
Germany (Nazi): re 237-238, 270
Inquisition: g86 4/22 20, 24
Jesuits: g92 11/8 11-14
Latin America: w93 6/15 21
Mexico: g87 4/22 5
papal power in feudal Europe: g89 8/8 23-24
Philippines: g87 4/22 3; w86 7/15 27
Puerto Rico: yb87 95
rationale for involvement: w93 7/1 9-10
South Africa: w89 11/15 7
United Nations: w92 3/1 5-6
United States: g 6/12 28; g87 4/22 9
dissatisfaction with leaders: g93 11/22 28
divisiveness: mrt article 70
early Christians shun involvement: lvs 61; lv 52; w12 5/1 22; w04 5/1 3; rs 273-274; tp 123-124
espionage: g87 11/22 10-13
experiences:
answering demands for support: yb07 126-128
mayor steps down: w04 5/1 6-7; yb01 59-60
political activists: w18.06 3, 6-7; w04 5/1 7; yb02 155-156; g02 6/22 19-23; w98 1/1 5; w88 12/1 28-31; yb88 120-121
politician accepts truth: yb89 233-234
politician impressed by assembly quality: w89 6/15 24
violent political activists: w12 1/1 20-21; g 6/11 4-9; g 6/06 9
young female reformer: g04 3/22 9
failure: w10 1/15 28-29; w10 12/15 16; g 5/08 4-6; w01 10/15 3-4
lies: w18.10 8; w92 12/15 21
politicians distrusted: g05 8/22 29
power struggle between blocs:
Daniel’s prophecy about (Da 11, 12): g87 1/8 10; w86 10/15 3-7
relationship to terrorism: g87 1/8 9-10, 13
religion in politics: re 39-40, 236-243, 262-263; w96 4/15 12-13; g96 11/8 5-6; w89 4/1 5-6; g88 12/22 3-6; w87 11/1 27-28; g87 4/22 3-10; g87 6/22 14; g87 9/8 28
apartheid: g88 6/22 3-6; w87 11/1 29; g86 7/22 4-6
Assyria: it-1 956
Bible view: mrt article 38; w12 5/1 3-11, 22; re 236-237; w04 5/1 5-7; g87 4/22 8-10
Buddhism: g89 4/22 19
Byzantine Empire: w02 2/15 8-12
Christendom: w00 6/1 4-5; g95 1/8 25; w93 7/1 9-11; pr 18-19; w86 11/15 6
clergy: w04 5/1 3-5; g87 4/22 5-8; w86 7/15 27
comments of Dutch journal Kerk en Theologie: g89 4/8 31
Eastern Europe: w91 4/1 30; w91 9/1 4
failure to improve world: w01 10/15 3-4
Hitler’s rise to power: re 237-238
influence on colonization: w87 10/1 24-25
liberation theology: w01 10/15 3; g88 12/22 3-5, 8-10; g87 4/22 7-8; g87 8/8 18-20; g87 11/8 2-7
Lutheran Church: w89 12/15 29; g87 9/8 6
medieval Europe: w89 9/1 3-4
origin: g89 1/22 21-22
papal power in feudal Europe: g89 8/8 23-24
peace efforts: g89 12/8 24-25, 27
Spain: g90 3/8 4-9
support of efforts for international security: w92 3/1 5-6
United States: g 6/12 28
Witness view: jv 189-190
World Council of Churches: g91 2/22 11
satanic influence: w12 5/1 6-7; rs 153, 364-365
school elections:
Witness view: w10 12/15 4-5
Witness attitude: ijwfq article 37; lvs 244; rr 80-81; w12 12/15 26-27; w01 10/15 6; w00 9/1 14-16
women in: w87 8/15 3-4
world changes: g93 1/8 6-8
youths’ views: g96 8/22 29
Quotations
cannot put connecting tissue back in society: w01 10/15 3
church in danger of seeing politics meddle with religion: w87 11/1 27
fundamentalist Christians have gradually come to believe that political activism is a duty: g87 4/22 7
hypocrisy in political life: g90 8/8 4
I always heard that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost a sin not to get involved: g87 4/22 7
of all plagues with which mankind are curst, ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst: w89 9/1 4
time to get politics out of the pulpit and the pulpit out of politics: g87 4/22 10