Sentences with phrase «religion as a tool»

For centuries, rulers have used religion as a tool to control citizens, to raise armies, to keep the peace through fear of hell and religious wrath.

The politicization of religion as a tool to manipulate the electorate in the last 30 years or so is a real problem.

In the time of slavery, slave masters would use religion as a tool for controlling slaves.

Others who use religion as a tool for psychological enslavement or to justify committing atrocities belong in prison, not behind a pulpit.

This really shows up religion as a tool of control, theft and suppression by the supremely wealthy over the rest of us.

They treat religion as a tool for maintaining backwardness in the Polish backwater.»

But I can tell the difference between people using religion as a tool for their own hateful ends as opposed to care & understanding.

Some of them suppressed religion as a tool to further the goal of totalitarian control.

I fully understand that a lot of people use religion as a tool for inner peace, and that is fine, but we as a species take it too far.

Most seminaries in America consider either comparative religion or the history of religions as a tool for the Christian world mission.

These people use religion as a tool for violence and i am ashamed so many people in america can not make this distinction.

Anytime people don't want religion to be a distraction in a discussion, they are free to omit using religion as a tool of argumentation.

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While Miscavige and his organization have held up the media complex as a valuable tool for spreading the message of Scientology and recruiting new members to join, the new facilities have received criticism from opponents of the religion — including some former members — who claim the complex is nothing more than a propaganda machine and a ploy to attract donations.

The world would be a better place if religion (which is just a tool used by people who are afraid of death) did not exist, at least as it is now.

The only conflicts left after that involving religion would be someone who wanted to consolidate or expand thier power by molding religion as their propaganda tool and we could easily see through that.

We have already indicated Wesley's more positive appreciation of reason, especially as a tool of reflection and analysis; one of his most characteristic types of writing was various «appeals» to «men of reason and religion.»

In such a situation characterized by the exploitation of the many by the few, one of the fundamental tools of oppression is, today as in the days of Amos, religion.

This simply shows that religion is created by man as a tool for control.

I do not begrudge anyone the comfort of religion, but I can't say as I'm a fan of those who would use their faith as a tool to rationalize the condemnation of this and that from a fiery problem.

The role of this movement as a tool to marginalise religion in society should not be overlooked.

Perry and Bachmann are using their religion as a political tool.

My position is this — organized religion is used as a tool to control people, whether at the local level, national, or transnational level.

The rest of the fools are out following the dribble of politicians who as I said before use religion & «gawd» as their tool to manipulate the masses.

Especially if the «religion» uses fear as a tool to instill obedience.

When religion is used as a POLITICAL tool to conquer, divide, oppress and subvert a country's own people and / or neighbors, it becomes an evil weapon more powerful than any man made weaponry.

After 56 years I've learned that science is based on proven FACTS and religion is mere myth used as a tool used by man.

Having faith is one thing but we should never elect anyone who uses their religion as a political tool.

To say the least, an approach that rules out all speech about God seems somewhat inappropriate as a tool for interpreting a book of religion.

CNN: My Take: Counting the Bible's words doesn't yield a Republican Jesus Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» responds to angry emails he received after writing a Belief Blog post in which he takes issue with evangelicals using Jesus as a political tool to benefit the Republican Party.

Unfortunately, believing that religion will be removed as a political tool is as much a fairytale fantasy as some other beliefs.

Television has, as a secular tool, largely rejected the concept of God, but in the place of God television substitutes the larger economic order, and like the Christian religion has created its own «super-natural» agents or saints to help maintain and represent this order.

There will always be extremists of religion, people are basically the same as they have ever been, and nothing has really changed since the don of man, only our tools.

The most successful tool your successful nations used in the capture of the resources of the world was their religion, the gun powder as against swords of the world and an educational system based on learning only what they considered as the truth.

Donald Trump suggested the U.S. should «seriously» consider profiling Muslims inside the country as a terrorism - fighting tool — the latest example of the Republican presidential nominee - in - waiting increasingly backing positions that could single out a group based on their religion.

Some of these men saw yoga, then more of a philosophy, as a non-sectarian, indigenous symbol of India that transcended divisions of religion and language: a handy tool to have when you're trying to unify a nation.

As scientists use tools like EGG / ECGs, MRI imaging, and controlled clinical trials to study and explain why tapping works, I am more convinced EFT has a solid foundation no matter your religion or worldview.

These can vary from filters such as physical appearance, lifestyle, income, education and religion, to more specific tools like a keyword or a username search.

Almost all of the top millionaire dating sites have a special search tool that lets you specify preferences in religion, career, education level, as well as height, eye color, etc..

Aronofsky puts to work the tools of the horror genre (the haunted house - isolated in a forest, bumps in the night, body horror, unwelcome strangers, horror as a manifestation of marital problems) to construct a Trojan Horse from which springs a complex thesis about the commodity and vanity of celebrity, mass societal behaviour, procreation, religion and more.

As a result, she has developed a set of tools about how to think about religion that she feels is not only beneficial to those who teach religion, but also to the general public.

The course, which rewards MCPS teachers with three Continuing Professional Development credits, exposed teachers to the diversity of religious practice in the region and across the United States as a whole, while giving them the tools and knowledge to return to their classrooms in the fall, empowered to incorporate religion into their lessons and build safe spaces for all students.

She is the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story, a compelling true story about a teenage girl who escapes her abusive Mormon stepfather and the suffocating poverty and religion at home by joining her dad on the road as a tool - selling vagabond — until his arrest forces her to take charge of her life.

Charlemagne finds himself at the head of a new age of education, religion and warfare, and sees all as tools to unite, stabilize... and expand.

Drawing on her background in graphic design, Kruger adopts the same visual tools as mass media; the appropriated images and texts acting as both social commentary and political agitator commenting on religion, sex, racial and gender stereotypes, consumerism, corporate greed, and power.

Surely, in the middle ages, religion was used as a tool to gain power, influence policy for personal gain, keep the masses under control and hardly anyone dared be critical of religion — even of the regular changes in what one had to believe.