Sentences with phrase «of false piety»

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»).

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.»

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.

Humility doesn't parade around in the skinny jeans of false piety.

Not exact matches

Pardon the tirade, but I am sick to death of the ignorant, smug, hateful, hypocritical, false piety of Christians.

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.

James also has his theatrical Toussaint character take part in a voodoo ceremony during which the houngan symbolically rips a crucifix from a chain around his neck and throws it away, the most false image of any in the play since the real Louverture was renowned for his Catholic piety.

His way to this, whether we find it acceptable or not, should prove instructive to the modern spirit which has become acutely conscious of the false masks of piety.