Sentences with phrase «religious exaltation»

This thriller delves into religious exaltation and torment to deal with the issues of anger and pain of the past.

Some believe it fuels vivid dreams, mystical revelations and religious exaltation, as...

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For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

The Protestant Reformation attacked certain elements in the Catholic tradition, its exaltation of celibacy above marriage, its conception of the religious vocation as of greater merit than secular life with family responsibility.

Since then I have given up the «religious» which is nothing but the exception, extraction, exaltation, ecstasy; or it has given me up.

Under the influence of scientism, the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, modern philosophy and the suspicions cast by social science many intelligent people today suspect that religious symbols are no more than psychic or social «projections.»