The arms race represents a complex interweaving of human anxiety and
nationalistic idolatry.
That is perpetuating a system of
nationalistic idolatry over and against cries for justice and equitable society.
The fact that we are in the midst of an enormous transformation toward a «universal civilization» suggests that only in a new confrontation with localistic, cultural and
nationalistic idolatries of all sorts, and only by clariflying what universal realities are worth living and dying for, can we find hope.
Not exact matches
The churches are themselves so caught up in the
nationalistic, ideological, racial, and materialistic
idolatries of contemporary culture that they are unlikely centers of revolutionary ferment.
«A significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of
nationalistic and political
idolatry.
I would think our US
nationalistic tendencies would be a more honest depiction of
idolatry than sports.