Sentences with phrase «false piety»

"False piety" refers to a behavior where someone pretends to be religious or show devotion, but it is insincere or hypocritical. Full definition
And then there's former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been accused of false piety for asserting religion's primacy (especially controversial was his suggestion that «the schoolteacher will never be able to replace the priest or the pastor»).
You, on the other hand, are a racist bigot, cloaked in false piety, who hides behind the Bible, used to reinforce your hatred of whole groups of people who you can not hold a candle to.
And yet, that doesn't stop people on this board who are absolutely hateful... as they hide behind their cloak of false piety.
Her false piety is only exceeded by her duplicity.
Humility doesn't parade around in the skinny jeans of false piety.
Pardon the tirade, but I am sick to death of the ignorant, smug, hateful, hypocritical, false piety of Christians.
It should be underscored that the new life which flows from the experience of the redeeming mercy of God is a life of free creative effort in which all human powers are released from the shackles of a false piety and a crabbed moralism.
And the old man answered very slowly but very clearly, «On the other side, that sin which is punished with constant and unending severity is the sin of false piety
While there is no immediate necessity in assuming that the God who has died is the God of «faith,» there is also no escaping the inevitable consequence that the dead God is not the God of idolatry, or false piety, or «religion,» but rather the God of the historic Christian Church, and beyond the Church, of Christendom at large.
something beyond the empty moralism and false piety that is rampant in Christianity.
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