Sentences with phrase «religious passion»

When blind religious passion rules people, all norms of justice and law are cast aside.

An interesting and suggestive aspect of his gender - based analysis is the near - total absence of religion as a cause of violence, unlike standard liberal narratives that attribute the progress of Western society to the taming of religious passions through secularization.

The Old Testament prophets had a message and produced a literature which for religious passion and ethical discernment has not been equaled anywhere outside the words of Jesus.

But there is also Pinkie in Brighton Rock, who (in Sherry's characterization) «seeks with religious passion his own damnation,» cursed by a religious sensibility and able only to choose the demonic.

His knowledge of the New Testament was not only technically competent; it was accompanied by religious passion and theological sincerity.

YTI is designed to instill religious passion in teens.

The human element in religion is imperfect and flawed; there is no shame in admitting this, for reason can help refine religious passion: «Religions need always to be purified according to their true essence in order to correspond to their true mission.»

The connection between religious passion and sexual passion is all too obvious — Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard being examples in evangelical circles (other communities have their own object lessons), and Byassee's solution (if such it is meant to be) is perhaps too subtle.

Adopted two years after the assassination, India's constitution sought to temper religious passions and provide for religious liberty.

After decades of bloodshed, violence, and terror in the wars of religion, however, many came to something like the opposite conviction that, in Pannenberg's words, «religious passion destroys social peace.»

Precisely because of its moral implications, this subject lays bare the most intimate religious passions of Christian and Jew.

And yes, I think sport and religious passion come from the same place; the evolution of tribalism and war.

Piseno writes: «Ranging widely from densely textured works on canvas formed with layers of an acrylic and pumice mixture on top of silicon molds to abstract representations of the native olive and cedar trees of Lebanon, Nahas's work consistently oscillates between many aesthetic sensibilities, ultimately driven by his almost religious passion for abstraction.»

When, blind, religious passion rules the people, they cast aside all norms of justice and the rule of law Politicians of all parties dabble with communal forces and succumbing to their pressures deviate from the path of secular politics.

A rough and individualistic Protestant gospel joined with superb showmanship elicited (her critics say exploited) the religious passions of millions of Americans.

Every now and then, when the Cowboys get on a winning streak, I feel a tinge of that religious passion sports fans talk about.

But if Hansen works with some of the same materials, he has fashioned an altogether more serious and profound exploration of suffering and religious passion.

Radha's passionate love of Krishna, raised to its highest intensity, is not an allegory for religious passion; it is religious passion.

Some of the schemes that string together the people in this marriage are classic: the poetry of religion in place of religious passion, childish family - feeling, sympathy as an antidote to guilt, mockery to subdue the soul's hunger pains.

They're blinded by their religious passion.

It is now apparent that this effort was, at least in part, the attempt of a culture whose religious dimensions were fading to find some other area in which the religious passions could be exercised.

I don't think the Pope's visit revived any religious passion, but it sure gave the city's red light district a shot in the arm!

Einstein was a relaxed, sensual man who found pleasure pleasurable and religious passion a waste of time.

Alina returns to the monastery, where romantic and religious passion, sanity and insanity, cellphone modernity and medieval beliefs, continue their battle — and where the film starts to bog down in extended and unnecessary repetition.

This period of Spanish history — with its pageantry, religious passion, art patronage, political intrigue and literary accomplishments — rivals the eras of Elizabethan England and France under Louis XIV.