Sentence examples for sectarian views from inspiring English sources

When the Americans helped install him, in 2006, he was a colorless mediocrity with deeply sectarian views.

Strikingly absent in all of this have been the usual phrases that frequently buzz around religious involvement in politics: "absolutism," "intrusion," "imposing sectarian views," "mixing church and state".

On April 29, the commission suspended the licenses of 10 stations because they promoted sectarian views that contributed to violence, he said, but so far he has failed to share a report documenting evidence of this.

The twin religious protections enshrined in the First Amendment -- that one can freely exercise one's religion, and that the government cannot establish a state religion -- are forced onto a collision course when public officials insist their personal religious freedom allows them to promote sectarian views in office.

French bishops, confronted by a relatively educated and thoughtful populace and not having the Protestant fundamentalist allies enjoyed by their American brethren in this debate, long ago declared abortion and birth control to be sins for their fellow Catholics but did not try to force such sectarian views on their fellow Frenchmen.

As we shall see, it is a controversy of religion vs. religion; in particular, the creationism controversy is based in fringe sectarian views that oppose one another as well as mainstream theology.

To impose a sectarian view on such works is to deny their universal appeal.

Pellet said Australia was promoting "an elitist, metaphysical and sectarian view of science" whereas Japan was conducting "applied science".

Scholars said such tolerance could stem in part from the greater diversity of American society: that there are more people of minority faiths or no faith and that "it is hard to hold a strongly sectarian view when you work together and your kids play soccer together," Mr. Lindsay said.

The point to remember is that such sectarian religious views disagree with each other as much as they disagree with evolutionary science.

Such attacks are all the more serious because many of these nations require a national curriculum for all schools and because there is often no constitutional prohibition against infusing sectarian religious views into the curriculum.