Sentence examples for religious delusion from inspiring English sources

She learned later, from relatives, that in a fever of religious delusion he cut off his right hand.

"Obsession and bigotry are powerful forces," wrote Elizabeth Buchan in the Daily Mail, "and [Donoghue] is ruthless in her exposé of religious delusion, family lies and abuse.

The worship of the mechanical was, to Carlyle, something akin to religious delusion ("our true Deity is Mechanism"), one he compared to seventeenth-century New Englanders' belief in witchcraft.

But 9/11 showed what should have been clear long before: religious delusion, cultivated hatred and totalitarian ambitions create a terrorist culture; the perception of injustice may or may not be justified.

True operatic intent, as in the text being (in Mozart's words) the 'obedient daughter' of the music, was evident in Bernard MacLaverty's words for Gareth Williams's The King's Conjecture, a strange tale of religious delusion at the court of Scotland's King James IV.

The conservative values which were once reasonable, harmonious complements to their liberal counterparts in this democratic republic have been genetically modified by radically neurotic strains of corporate manifest destiny, John Birch paranoia and radical religious delusion.

By noon, progress was undeniable, as pro-choicers were overheard politely saying, "If you will respect my right to choose, I may respect your right to harbor demented religious delusions".

But while religious delusions can be dangerous – we all know of mass murderers convinced they were acting out God's will – they are unlikely to explain why Phillip Garrido kidnapped Jaycee Dugard in the first place.

TRANSFIGURES Women's Project presents a play conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet, in which tourists in Israel fall into religious delusions, a phenomenon known as the Jerusalem syndrome.

Due to the crazed religious delusions of her mother, Carrie knows nothing about menstruation, and so runs out into a sea of her peers, shaking and screaming, "Help me, please help me".

The slow response to Hurricane Katrina is assaulted with fury on Revolution, which surveys a landscape of homeless children, raped women and "religious delusions", and concludes that "rebellion, revolution, is the final solution".