Sentences with phrase «religion as their weapon»

Just replace black with gay and you'll understand what is happening when people like you use their religion as a weapon against EQUAL rights in a SECULAR country.

Unless these religious leaders are stopped abusing religion as their weapon, there will be no peace in this world.

Further, they not infrequently use religion as a weapon to inflame communal passions.

I understand the relevance to the argument on the representation of Guy Fawkes in this movement, but best I can see these folks aren't really using religion as a weapon or complaining about it.

Not exact matches

From 60 % you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

The militant atheist Richard Dawkins uses science as a weapon in his war against religion.

For this reason we can not use the gospel and our theology as defensive weapons in the fight between the religious and the non-religious; rather they are to be used, without prejudice, to discuss with the non-religious the phenomenon and problems of religion and the everlasting love of God.

Isn't it amazing how religion is so often used as a weapon, whether it's against our own families or others?

The exceptional cases are when religion has not been used as a political weapon.

From 60 %, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Marx's critique of religion was replaced by the eighteenth century popular critique of religion, clergy, and church, evidently because it was more effective as a political weapon.

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.

From 60 % +, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in: Albania — 70 %; Malaysia — 60.4 %; Qatar — 77.5 %; Sudan — 70 %.

it seems that shame is something you try to use as a weapon against those who have different belief systems than you do, which is one reason why a lot of people have left organized religion.

The dark skinned Lamanites at one point worshipped a religion of warfare (confirmed by archeology of Mesoamerica) according to the Book of Mormon converted from their blood - thirsty religion and as a sign of their conversion to not return to their old ways buried their blood stained weapons and vowed to never shed blood again.

The «conflict thesis» of science and religion was born in the salons of ancien régime France, where philosophes like Voltaire and d'Alembert used it as a weapon against the Catholic Church.

Our parenting beliefs are not as easy to hide as religion and politics, so we use them as weapons when we need a release.

Don't forget to get constitutional: What did the founders of our country do to ensure that religion could never be used as a legal weapon?