Sentence examples for ideological religion from inspiring English sources

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.

Totalitarianism has disappeared, except in a few small countries like Cuba and North Korea; a risen Asia represents as much a cultural as an ideological challenge; religion has made a political comeback everywhere.

In a speech that also touched on a central theme of his papacy and thought, the tension between faith and reason, Benedict said that "the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends," was often "the real catalyst for tension and division, and at times even violence in society".

Spinoza, reacting against the ideological wars of religion and skeptical of both metaphysics and religious dogma, was a scientific humanist who justified political power solely by its usefulness.

"Today's culture of infotainment, sound bites, fundamentalist religion, ideological extremism and rigidity, and the politics of fear and hate impairs reasoning and thoughtful debate".

This gorgeous, inspired and gutsy film, the first feature documentary by Adele Horne, who also produces video art, opens up new ideological vistas on religion, technology and globalization.

One particularly pernicious source of ideological obfuscation is religion, which Marx called "the opium of the people" because it purportedly dulls the critical faculties and leads workers to accept their wretched condition as part of God's plan.

Their recommendations may prove more useful as a philosophical corrective than as a set of juridical guidelines, but their careful attention to the social meaning of symbols, and their nuanced concern with the sociological role and ideological sway of religion in American culture, insures the persuasive force and continuing relevance of their arguments.

AMMAN, Jordan — Visiting a mosque on the second day of his closely watched first visit to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday denounced the "ideological manipulation of religion" and called for greater understanding between the Christian and Muslim faiths.

Structural chasms in bridges, roadways, pipelines, and schools were matched by ideological chasms over religion, economics, politics and war.

A number of informants were critical of the discourse around CHW stipends being unsustainable, citing the ongoing fixation on volunteerism as ideological, ' almost a religion' (Informant 4).