Sentences with phrase «other than an empty promise»

If religion (as opposed to morality) was anything other than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in World history and viewed in a positive light?

It prevents a genuine understanding of real inequalities in the world in favour of a hollow, surrogate system of ethics that exploits images of inequality for its own ends and offers nothing other than an empty promise not to make it worse.

Not exact matches

In other words, a bill called Every Child Achieves must be more than an empty promise.

There wasn't anything special about that goddamned Wii - mote, other than the empty (for me) promise of making games more «accessible.»