If it wanted to, the church could erect a 20-square-foot "ideological" sign reading "PRAISE JESUS" (or the like), which could stay up for evermore.
"He is an ideological foot soldier, not only in the war on terror, but also in the broader Bush agenda," said Jeremy Scahill, the author of a new book called "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Nationon).
It was a scene which would utterly flummox the ideological foot soldiers, whose raised fists, misspelled signs and froth-flecked rants at their feverishly vilified opponents would make one think the United States is on the brink of a major kanipshin.
For decades, conservatives quietly elected like-minded ideological foot soldiers to local school boards, town councils and state legislatures as ways to build up their power bloc and extend conservative ideas throughout American society.
The group's annual gathering has special significance this year as Democrats continue to seek the party's ideological footing now that the Republicans control the White House.
The problem is that they are born of an ideological hybrid that wrong-foots our political class.
The ideological shoe was on the other foot in that case, as liberals accused Kyle of being a serial exaggerator and braggart and used it to question the credibility of the Oscar-nominated film.
Put Woodward together with Hersh and an abyss opens up, dividing the decision elite's view of the road to war -- ideological, pristine, hard-edged and clear -- and the foot soldiers' view -- messy, incompetent, confused and sometimes downright immoral.
Standing well over 6 feet (1.8m) tall, the bearded Castro was for years a cigar-chomping bulwark of ideological resistance to the United States, decked out in green military fatigues and cap.
Foot argues that the king's inner circle quickly seized on the potential of the conquest for "ideological aggrandizement of the king's public standing".
It is purely ideological".
