Sentences with phrase «reaction against religions»

It springs from various causes, among which must be included a critical reaction against religions and, in some places, against the Christian religion in particular.

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They have some respectable reasons, but the major reason, in my experience, is a knee «jerk reaction against anything that smells like religion or teleology.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Islam is religion of peace with who wants peace but not for those who look for war against it... Besides quoting «A force to be feared» this what would the Israelies say worrying from reactions after 30 years of suppression by this party and president ruling the country... another fear that they will spread their ideology all over Arabia..

The most important reason, doubtless, for the prevalence of such «social religion» in modern Christian churches is their reaction against the isolationism which long characterized many of them.

Deep down, the distrust of Americans against collective agreements and government enforcement can be seen as correct reactions of religion that sees its own role diminished if government / state is too successful.

«By the mid - and late - 1970s,» wrote the curator Richard Marshall in his essay for the exhibition «American Art Since 1970» at the Whitney Museum, «painting had moved further away from the confines of the Minimalist approach — even from a negative reaction to it — and the artists [Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Lois Lane, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen and Elizabeth Murray] inaugurated new ways to treat subject matter and meaning -LSB-...] there emerged a move against an insular, elitist attitude towards art and what it is, should be, or must be -LSB-...] artists began to look at more diverse visual repertory: commercial art, advertising, fashion, television and movies, popular culture, the decorative arts, rugs, religion, ancient artifacts, and Middle Eastern Cultures.»

«I chose the lecture's title [«One religion is enough»] largely in reaction to the sanctimonious tone employed by so many of those who advocate quite substantial, and costly, responses to what they see as irrefutable evidence that the world's climate faces catastrophe, against people who do share their view.