Sentences with phrase «politics than religion»

Whether the slot is in fact as anodyne as the Today presenters claim (or whether it is dull because the BBC is terrified of letting its thinkers say anything edgy), Jesus» parable of the Good Samaritan somehow seems better suited to politics than religion.

Not exact matches

'' [SodaStream's] issues involve politics, ideological differences, religion, and management that appears to have been less than truthful and fair with internal and external audiences,» Smith says.

The survey found that finances are a more common relationship strain than goals for the future, career decisions, politics, kids and religion.

In over a decade of coaching people in nutrition, exercise, and body image, I learned that talking about what we eat is often more intimate than talking about sex, religion, or politics.

One study done by Wells Fargo earlier this year found that nearly half of Americans find it harder to discuss money than other touchy topics such as politics or religion.

If our world focused on religion a bit more than politics maybe we would be a better world.

Michael Burleigh's study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than the one we behold today — not the polity of bureaucrats in Brussels but a Europe of statesmen and revolutionaries who aimed at the most extravagant notions of national destiny.

I do not know who these rather shell - shocked former practitioners of identity politics might be or what makes them into people who could be receptive to the lessons embedded in Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of religion and who could apply them to religions other than Judaism.

Why is it that whenever politics or religion are discussed the move from issues to personal insults, which generates more heat than light, is almost inevitable?

I am a Christian but avoid christian religions other than as a place of meditation, worship and intellectual debate, certainly not as a place for moral guidance as they change the rules with the politics of the age.

The war against terrorism is» more than it is politic for world leaders to say in public» also a war of religion.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Why not form an opinion totally based on how you «feel» or your «emotions» and justify your argument on why you feel that way, rather than saying «for the bible tells me so»... That's why we can't move forward on issues in this country; people feel they can't express themselves without the safety of a group's opinion... Let's listen to ourselves for once instead of having your daddy's politics and religion handed down to you like a family asset.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

Modern politics was born, in a more than chronological sense, in the aftermath of the wars of religion.

I can not fathom how the writer of this piece and some of the people he quotes could possibly Interpret those two statements of Jesus as other than an admonition to keep religion out of politics.

To put it bluntly: politics usually matters more than religion does; or, politics co-opts religion and thus neutralizes it.

religion is nothing else than politics and power, just in the original form prior to the advent of books... so given that in the US there still is the death penalty..

The closeness of religion and politics, more than their separateness, marks the church - state situation in America.

My suspicion is that the way politics and religion have bound themselves to one another for many evangelicals has resulted in an immigration view that is more informed by «their guy in the Governor's mansion» or their candidate in an election than it is by their Bibles.

«It's almost like Islam - radicalized Islam,» he continued, «in a way to where radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics.»

And if they seem to «care» more than before, it's because they are fed up with the introduction of religion into places it use to be less talked about, like politics.

Although Santorum is catholic, he is pushing for all the christian votes, and, his talk revolves far more about religion than social / economic politics.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

My low point came on the day I had to fill in for the absent teacher of the Sunday school class for the teen - agers» parents, a bunch of grown - ups who were powerful, outspoken and of a very different persuasion than I when it came to politics and religion.

He is the author and editor of more than 20 books on religion and politics.

If religions are taxed they will get involved in politics more than ever.

Feuding groups throughout history have used race, religion, and politics (the Jew - Gentile division was a toxic combination of all three) to look down upon each other and accuse one another of being less than human and less - loved by God.

There is no «racism» in critiquing a religion, no different than analyzing any ideology (politics, religion, etc..)

I love religion, it is worse than politics.

There is more politics to religion than meets the eye.

At various times and places politics may be little more than the pragmatic art of getting things done and religion may confine itself to «spiritual» matters.

I for one applaud a pope who is more concerned with religion than politics and tries to understand those who disagree with him instead of flinging hatred at them as the conservatives are wont to do.

It is rather to say that they will be found, if at all, elsewhere than in abstract argument; they will be located in the realm of religion and politics and the everyday requirements of true freedom.

But Helen was far more than that; she was a great wit and an indomitable debater on any subject other than religion or politics — although we never had a real bridge argument, not because she followed my precepts but because she usually turned out to be right.

It's hit the news, blogs, social media, and forums where parenting approaches are more contentious than politics or religion.

A propos of nothing in particular, other than the fact that religion has been a very hot topic in New York politics today — and this photo just tickles me.

CHICAGO — One of the largest surveys of American views on religion and science suggests that the religious and scientific communities may be less combative than is commonly portrayed in the media and in politics.

In over a decade of coaching people in nutrition, exercise, and body image, I learned that talking about what we eat is often more intimate than talking about sex, religion, or politics.

Both men and women are evidently more comfortable discussing their passions and common interests than about conflictual topics such as politics, economics or religion.

It asks us to take another look at what we think we know about politics, religion and other things we like to argue about, and asks nothing more than our quiet attention.

Two teenage girls — Ginger and Rosa — are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers» frustrated domesticity.

For onlookers of democratic politics, rather than assuming a trajectory in which democracy (by which too many onlookers assume Western liberal democracy) prevails, it is prudent to heed the contested nature of this concept and note that among populations that are deeply divided on the separation of religion and state, if some form of democracy does arise once the dust settles it will by virtue of the democratic process likely take place in between the essentialized and polarizing categories — those «secular» and «Islamist» conceptions — that are so prevalently and popularly discussed in popular discourse and the media.

Also, self - publishing titles tend to include books that are locally focused, narrate family histories, are niche and at times more risque — around religion, politics, sex and sexuality — than what a traditional publisher might wish to handle, Fulton and Bradley said.

God and Gold is engaging in the extreme, which you can't say of most books spanning more than 350 years of history with an emphasis on religion, politics and money.

Nearly every adult in the U.S. has some form of debt, but 99 % of us would rather argue about religion and politics than ask for advice on debt management.

If you'd rather chat with someone you just met about religion, politics, or your love life than your credit card debt, then maybe you've got too much debt?

Remember to avoid controversial subjects like politics and religion, unless you care more about those subjects than your business.

The more than 50 artists included in the exhibition have culled from the canon of art history, mined mass media, and scoured streets and screens to appropriate images and practices from commerce, science, politics, sports, religion, and technology, to illuminate recent shifts in how culture is being created and consumed.

He makes stories, pictures, and objects that are documents of contemporary morality; exploring a reality stranger than fiction, through fantasy, satire and subculture, using themes appropriated from the universal concerns of sex, love, violence, beauty, advertising, food, battle scenes, pornography, writing, politics, religion, crime, dancing, lust, greed, things falling apart, and spaceships.