Specifically, the ideological intersection between God and public policy.
If you take out God, their ideological deep structure is remarkably similar.
The world needs God, not babbling, ideological religion, but religion continues to sidestep what really should be its central focus: to bring peace to a world which is so fraught with hatred and intolerance.
And invoking a God in your own ideological image makes for an even easier justification.
This ideological use of crucifixion asserts that God requires violence to save the world.
No amount of political differences, cultural strife or ideological division can stop the work of God.
God knows, both sides of the ideological divide have fundamentalists in need of taming.
It can be used by criminal gangs to intimidate for profit, or by seething loners seeking infamous celebrity, or ideological fanatics intent on establishing the rule of God (or Mao) on earth.
The power of the ruler was enhanced not only through symbolic and ideological concepts drawn from Khmer-Hindu beliefs about the god-king but also through the centralization of political power.
Her prayers were not only ideological, they were practical, indeed instrumental: "Please help me dear God to be a good writer and to get something else accepted".
"In our day," says pastor Bruce Reyes-Chow, "it is radical to see the political or ideological other as a full and complex human being, a child of God.
