Sentences with phrase «from religious fundamentalism»

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.

When science begins to believe it knows everything it degrades into scientism, an absolutist belief no different from the religious fundamentalism that its adherents decry.

If the Republicans want to win again, they need to step away from religious fundamentalism and move towards a platform that is pro-freedom, pro-personal choice, fiscally conservative, nationalist, and pro-economic development.

My atheism could not be further from religious fundamentalism!

-- the only substantively new part of his book — ranges from religious fundamentalism to Middle Eastern politics to the sexual - abuse crisis, yet it mentions Jesus Christ only once.

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I think more effort and resources would be more effectively and more critically placed into keeping our government secular, keeping Creationism out of the science class, and religious fundamentalism away from interfering with women's reproductive choices — just to name a few priorities.

The ventriloquists of our humane verbal fundamentalisms are but like lunacies of mental arborists who become jealous regarding differing sensualists whose only ills are to recreations of sensualistic pleasing outrightly set apart from the emotionally disturbed religious fundamentalists who seem to be fixated in their arbitrary mindset issues of straight lined sensualistic commonalities complacencies.

«lionlylamb2013 High 5 «imagination», The ventriloquists of our humane verbal fundamentalisms are but like lunacies of mental arborists who become jealous regarding differing sensualists whose only ills are to recreations of sensualistic pleasing outrightly set apart from the emotionally disturbed religious fundamentalists who seem to be fixated in their arbitrary mindset issues of straight lined sensualistic commonalities complacencies.

Kathleen Taylor, a nerologist from Oxford, says that advances in neurological imaging may enable doctors and scientists to treat religious fundamentalism as a disease.

The new threats to it is from the revival of religious fundamentalism and communalism and its political expressions, especially in the Hindutva demand for a Hindu Rashtra.

Negative fundamentalism has led many away from anything religious / spiritual.

Because the same media managers were at war with the fundamentalism of the religious right in this country, the reporting and commentary tended to become a running polemic against undifferentiated «religious fanaticism» that threatened the secular assumptions of Western elites who had been miseducated to believe that religion is a vestigial phenomenon from the unenlightened past.

``... we will end up building a permanent temple that will crystallize our thoughts and beliefs and encrust us in a religious fundamentalism from which there is no escape.»

In the many quotes from Bharucha, religious fundamentalism almost becomes the basic enemy of Indian secularism.

Otherwise, we will end up building a permanent temple that will crystallize our thoughts and beliefs and encrust us in a religious fundamentalism from which there is no escape.

Because fundamentalism must draw its adherents from among those who are outside the religious mainstream, it tends to ally with populist extremes.

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.

Far from being the loyal defence of Judaism, Christianity or Islam, fundamentalism is a religious aberration.

The threat to this idea of secularism arises form religious fundamentalism which is afraid of insecurity through change in traditional religious dogmas, ritual practices of purity and impurity in social laws; the threat also comes from communalism which seeks political power for one's religious community or in the case of Hindutva wants to establish a Hindu state.

No doubt this expresses the author's fundamentalism, derived from his scientific and religious readings, about the power of connectedness.

The long - term goal of reducing poverty, religious fundamentalism and overpopulation will be impossible to reach until we free women around the world from the enslavement of ignorance.

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.

The end result of this controlling regime of finance capital and religious and conservative fundamentalism is an all - out cleansing of critical thinking from most educational books now being used in the schools, especially the public schools.