Sentences with phrase «ersatz religion»

Paul Vitz, a psychologist at New York University, has not received the credit he deserves for a number of studies demonstrating Freud's dependence upon, and perversion of, Christian narratives in constructing his ersatz religion.

She is surrounded daily with supporters who bolster her views, people who understand themselves as moral crusaders, pursuing their aims with all the zeal inspired by political ideology or — perhaps more aptly — ersatz religion.

Neuhaus put it, «is simply the term unhappily chosen for ersatz religion.»

In Updike's view, the ineluctable disappearance of religion in the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in Lilies).

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The Greeks, who knew no religion that wasn't ersatz, needed St. Paul to tell them what they meant by «an unknown god.»

Instead he is an ersatz theologian, a self - taught theologian, one who employs the history of religions only as a route into a non theological theology.

If we are going to be fair to all religions, either remove the ersatz science that teaches out of th ebible, or make every kid get a science textbook, a bible, a koran, the upanishads, maybe throw in a little shinto and native american myth etc....