Sentences with phrase «reactionary views»

As a long - time critic of the historically regressive and reactionary views championed by Dr. Hurley, I found myself applauding what appears to be — at least on the issue of cats — a complete turn - around in Dr. Hurley's message and beliefs.

Some have reactionary views on issues like immigration.

The gambit was that promises to improve living standards and workplace empowerment would provide a sufficient attraction to workers with far more reactionary views on «social issues» than generally prevail today.

It also seems near certain now that Phillip Davies, a Tory MP hated by left - wingers and especially feminists for his reactionary views, has lost his seats.

Thomas Merton whom nobody could accuse of reactionary views, maintained, «The reason heresies have to be condemned is that they contain elements which resemble the truth and therefore lead well - meaning Christians into error.»

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Because of this, they're highly sensitive to opposing views, quick to throw up walls and often live a reactionary existence.

Such a reactionary response fails to factor in the inexact science of polling and what may simply be a more nuanced view of pluralism among religious people.

Anticommunism, in this view, is but a variant of antiliberalism, and it tends, moreover, to legitimate reactionary regimes and movements.

This is a remarkable revision of the GDR's official Luther image of, say, ten years ago, when he was still viewed through Marxist lenses as mainly a reactionary in the 16th century peasant wars.

Others, who were less sympathetic, doubtless assumed that my turn to Rome reflected what they viewed as my reactionary politics, notably with respect to abortion.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

According to popular assumptions, liberal approaches to the Bible emphasize messages of social action and downplay supernatural intervention, while conservative or traditionalist views accept the miraculous and advocate quietist or reactionary politics.

Both agreed that traditional Protestantism was intellectually reactionary, and within only about fifty years, they effected a remarkable revolution that eliminated most traditional Christian views from respectable academia.

At this late date, when many serious scholars have spoken out in favor of Pius XII, and when his cause is steadily advancing in Rome, Carroll's views on Pius are not only outdated but reactionary.

Prediction is something different, you are trying to predict from a reactionary point of view.

Tony Blair has launched a savage attack on the «outdated, reactionary» views of the Scottish National Party (SNP), saying it can not provide Scotland with hope.

Choose carefully, researcher: You are deciding whether posterity will view you as a visionary, a reactionary, or a crank.

Most damning of all the evidence against this film, however, is the review given by Donald Clarke of the Irish Times who said, following his viewing, that «Hollywood is incapable of seeing the Irish as anything but IRA men or twinkly rural imbeciles» and described it as «offensive, reactionary, patronising filth».

Good luck to them as their reactionary attitudes leave them further and further in the rear - view window as the rest of the country moves into a future of increased options for all, regardless of family income and ability to pay.

Despite being formally expelled from the Surrealist group in 1934 for his reactionary political views, he is today most often associated with this movement.

In the works on view, Wasmuht uses the visual language of painting to comment on the world population's increasing dependency on electronic devices, and the diminishing interpersonal social engagement and reactionary contemplation therein.

After dismissing the article as «reactionary, evidence - free journalism which provides a small part of a whole picture, thereby giving the wrong view», she makes her argument that the fossil fuel lobby — the Black Fog — is far more extended into policymaking than the Green Blob is.

I don't think people like Latie want to advance knowledge, being almost reactionary in their views.