Sentences with phrase «religion as political leaders»

They aren't representing their religion as political leaders, only their moral values.

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Political leaders then tend to divert popular attention away from economic issues, which are beyond their control, to social cultural issues such as ethno - nationalism, language and religion.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

What Iran is simply saying under the motivation and inspiration of «ISLAM» is if you believe any other way other than «ISLAM» you are wrong, and our President as well as many other political leaders here in America call this a religion of peace?

But many Western leaders, unable to believe that a mere religion could possible be a serious political threat, keep proclaiming themselves as Islam - friendly, reasoning that all religions are good - aren't they?

If Islam rids itself of radical political theory and leaders who promote murder then I can see it as a religion but not till then.

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.

Political leaders, as well as everyone else, should avoid saying hateful things or disparaging minority religions.

«Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people's views on what Islam really is.»

Huge swathes of populations abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and wars of religion erupted within and between nations, as political leaders made calculations about where their religious loyalties should lie.

The possibilities that political leaders will soon agree to effective climate policies seem to be close to zero, they are, as James Lovelock noted in «The Revenge of Gaia», only seeking just as Chamberlain 1938 to gain time, and they are not very interested in the realm, because most or all of them subscribe to the by far leading religion of our times: the neoclassical so - called economic «science», which is based on a lot of completely unrealistic assumptions, see fx.