Sentence examples for need of enlightenment from inspiring English sources

To borrow Dawkins' title, if God is nothing but an intellectual delusion then the billions of believers are, well, deluded; a collection of feeble saps in need of enlightenment from their intellectual superiors.

As a philosophy, preservation served the needs of Enlightenment thinkers to cast doubt on religious faith and provide aesthetic alternatives to Rococo style.

They saw the Orient as peopled by exotic natives unconcerned with progress, ruled by ritual, in need of Christian enlightenment.

Though Ms. Paulus has been criticized for being too populist in her productions for this once avant-garde company, her subdued, straightforward approach here isn't playing to the crowd, unless the crowd is middle-school students in need of political enlightenment.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned, in need of further cultural enlightenment.

The tight editing, which often cuts off a character in need of reassurance or enlightenment, is itself a form of wit.

When it comes to my participation in America, my whiteness and maleness are far more likely than my Islam to wound others, and thus perhaps more urgently in need of "reform" or "enlightenment" or whatever you say that Islam needs.

We need a digital age of enlightenment and openness to unleash the full potential of the IoT.

"We need an Aufklärung (an age of enlightenment)."This is where he believes politics can make a difference.

The reviewer disparaged the new special effects, stating that "...this is ironic as there are few Doctor Who stories less in need of replacement effects than Enlightenment.

The educational system's position seems to be that man needs only a sanitized form of enlightenment.