Sentence examples for theological violence from inspiring English sources

"My other purpose in doing this [documentary] is that I wanted to point out that theological violence and spiritual violence are just as damaging as emotional abuse and as physical abuse".

Maqdisi is a slightly rumpled, middle-aged theologian, but his religious fatwas have influenced a generation of jihadis around the world, who have seized upon his writings as a theological justification for violence.

That is why current deradicalization programs in Muslim countries or countries with significant Muslim populations contain much more than mere theological arguments against violence.

The campaign thereby succeeded in delivering a message to the world at large, even as it revisited the religious and theological roots of violence within.

But these theological disputes have rarely provoked violence between sects.

Behind the violence lies a long theological conflict that has divided the Islamic world for centuries.

Those who support jihad make selective theological and legal arguments to justify violence against the perceived enemies of Islam.

His writing and oratory had long blended obscure theological arguments, unemotional calls for mass violence, and the sort of secular commentary you might hear from a bearded haranguer in a West Coast bookstore.

Muslims who make the same theological point as Christians -- that violence and hatred are not a part of the Islam they know and practice -- are routinely ignored.

We may believe we have good theological reasons for affirming or condemning violence in some contexts, but let's not pretend that the Bible spells out such answers.

Those among the reformists who believed that the system allowed scope for reform found themselves face-to-face with a theological-political structure that used extreme violence to ensure its legitimacy.