Sentences with phrase «by religious fundamentalism»

The Keepers are being murdered, the stones stolen by those who would use them for evil in a world transformed by religious fundamentalism.

In part a historical recreation, The Witch's reverent dialogue (lifted from journals of actual period appropriate settlers) gives it an otherworldly feel that's amplified by the religious fundamentalism at the core of Roger Egger's dingy little feature.

An example for comparison might be what happened to the Ottoman empire which after embracing science and rising to world dominance slipped into a decline fueled by religious fundamentalism where the ideas of popular religious individuals reigned supreme over the importance of scientific fact.

It makes it devastatingly clear how f-ed up this country is by religious fundamentalism.

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I for one am encouraged by the atheists who are rejecting the hard - line atheistic fundamentalism of Dawkins and others, just as I am believes who reject the religious fundamentalism of Jerry Falwell.

A few acknowledge that the contest is most importantly about religion, but then go on to trivialize that reality by saying we are at war with all forms of «fundamentalism,» including the «religious right» in this country.

Carpenter begins by demonstrating that fundamentalism in the «30s and «40s was not a formless aggregate of disgruntled religious conservatives but a vigorous, self - conscious and comprehensive movement.

In his review of Fundamentalism Observed, edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Wuthnow describes the commonalities and distinctions among various religious fundamental movements in the world and corrects numerous myths and misunderstandings about fundamentalism with scholFundamentalism Observed, edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Wuthnow describes the commonalities and distinctions among various religious fundamental movements in the world and corrects numerous myths and misunderstandings about fundamentalism with scholfundamentalism with scholarly research.

Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers going to heaven and nonbelievers going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?

And the author Bharucha explains, «If by Secularism we mean a total avoidance of religious matters, the secular weapons may not be enough» to fight Fundamentalism.

In it he makes the point that Hindutva being by nature «all embracing and looks upon every sincere religious and spiritual pursuit with equal respect, is the opposite of Fundamentalism» which is intolerant of plurality.

This impregnable fortress was supported by Jewish self - righteousness, or religious fundamentalism.

It is as though an excess on the science front — scientism, that over-extrapolation from the findings of science which Nobel laureate Elias Canetti says has «grabbed our century by the throat» — has given political leverage to an opposite excess on the religious front: fundamentalism.

New religious movements seem to be born every day; on all continents and in all faiths, fundamentalism is unlikely to prove transitory; and even liberal Christianity may find itself threatened by a new reformation emanating from the geographic South.

Religious fundamentalism is a psychic disorder that is being created by the people who control the consciousness of the followers.

And today, the threat to the further development of common humanist culture comes from religious fundamentalism and communalism which deny the reality of religious pluralism and the possibility of a composite human culture reinforced by many faiths and ideologies.

It wasn't the only message being disseminated, of course: Merely suggesting abstinence as a public health measure was viewed by some as an irresponsible intrusion of religious fundamentalism into politics.

Halassa was born in Amman, Jordan, amid the sociopolitical upheaval wrought by the rise of religious fundamentalism across the Middle East in the late 1970s.

By then, we'd seen profound and disturbing changes in America: a rise in religious fundamentalism, the muddying of the line between church and state, infringements on civil rights in the name of patriotism and national security.

The Geometry of God is a novel one can read greedily, following four characters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General Zia's Pakistan, where religious fundamentalism gains ground and the mujaheddin is funded by gem sales and the Americans.

This is evident in the rejection of the undeniable reality of climate change by many of Trump's top appointees, the promotion to power of individuals who reject the fact of evolution in favor of pseudoscience and religious fundamentalism, the spreading of bad medical science around the proven safety of vaccines, and the refusal to study the health risks of guns.