We've allowed Judaism to be claimed by violently messianic West Bank settlers,

We've allowed Judaism to be claimed by violently messianic West Bank settlers,

He said, Bono, wouldn't that be a good use of your messianic complex?

He said, Bono, wouldn't that be a good use of your messianic complex?

MAD simply won t work for a mad man who is guided by quasi messianic certitude.

The messianic idealism that liberated Europe from Nazism and protected Western Europe from communism is now directed at other enemies.

He explained the Messianic illusions that were reborn with the Six Day War as false compensation for the martyrdom of the Shoah.

And so I realized that actually the tech world is best understood, not as a business cycle, but as a messianic movement.

He trusts his instincts and likes imaginative public policies, though this worries those who fear another messianic leader at the head of the government.

Given that Iran continues to pursue suspect nuclear programs, which could bring the Islamic Republic dangerously close to weapons capability, a leader with messianic visions is worrying.

While many Shia Muslims worship the 12th Imam, a previously secret society of powerful clerics, now openly advising the new president, are transforming these messianic beliefs into government policies.

Nor is the Jewish state of Israel, where Messianic fanatics and religious nationalists have embraced a political theology that questions the very legitimacy of the democratic institutions, immune from this phenomenon.

Meanwhile, Jewish Home, a party linked to fanatical, messianic rabbis for whom Zionism should now be imbued with eschatological meaning, challenged Netanyahu to adopt a more resolute expansionist policy in Palestinian territories.

But what I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion.

But what I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion.

No doubt, his regime revels in all the historic forms of populism messianic leadership, anti American rhetoric, disregard for constitutional forms, drunken spending, and state orchestrated popular mobilization to fill squares and jeer at supposed enemies.

The expulsion of Jews from England (1290), France (1391), Austria (1421), and Spain (the Alhambra decree of 1492) were seen by many as a sign of approaching redemption and contributed greatly to the messianic spirit of the time.

The expulsion of Jews from England (1290), France (1391), Austria (1421) and Spain (the Alhambra decree of 1492) were seen by many as a sign of approaching redemption and contributed greatly to the messianic spirit of the time.

One can predict with a high degree of confidence that the Polish Fourth Republic that the PiS would like to build will have to come to terms with the limited space in Europe for messianic visions and Christian fundamentalism.

These factors, together with the obvious failings of many Middle Eastern governments, have fueled the surge of fundamentalism among Muslims, American Christians, and some Israeli Jews that has now boiled over to rampant extremism, terror, and messianic visions of good versus evil.

It is because Netanyahu is driven by an almost Messianic determination to prevent Iran from acquiring the means to destroy Israel, that he might be amenable to a fundamental change in his position on Palestine, provided Obama makes visible headway in his drive to stop Iran s nuclear program.