Sentences with phrase «religion as a shield»

I am quite sick of people using religion as a shield from being held accountable,... especially as they like to say things like «we are all going to be held accountable after death.»

I have absolutely no doubt that, like this woman with the crowbar, those Catholic pedopriests justified their actions to themselves and others using their religion as a shield and a justification when needed to avoid accountability.

Unfortunately, there are some who use faith in religion as a shield to keep them from having to re-evaluate their beliefs.

I LOVE how these aggressive anti-gay types not only use religion as a shield for their intolerance, fear of change, etc..

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Just like any religion there are different types of atheists, some simply don't believe in a «creator» or higher authority, but others use atheism as a shield of intellectuality, safely keeping them from feeling anything.

Cowardly is sending suicide bombers to murder thousands civilians on one's behalf, dragging an entire religion into the mud in doing so, then holing up in a ritzy suburb living the high life, appearing only on internet videos, and then using a woman as a human shield when attacked.

Second, I was raised in a very religious environment and turned away from that when I was 19, best thing I ever did for myself, but as for my children, I will not shield them from religion, but I will not teach it to them and force them to go to church or anything like that.

not only is he using religion as a «shield», he is the epitomy of cronyism.

Or it's phony as hell, using «charity and religion as his sword and shield,» as Shane Ryan so eloquently put it.