Sentences with phrase «religious treason»

As Dr. George Foot Moore puts it: «It was not the Babylonians in the might of their gods who had triumphed over Judah and its impotent god; it was Jehovah himself who had launched Nebuchadnezzar and his hosts against the doomed city to execute his judgment on religious treason.»

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This led Golwalker to characterise those «who advocated Hindu - Muslim unity as necessary to fight for swaraj» as the perpetrators of the «greatest treason in our society» (Yogendra Sikand «Religion and Religious Nationalism» in The Frontier 9.5.92).

Indeed the identification of religious heterodoxy with treason is not unique to the Catholic Church.

One way of describing Dr. Altizer's effort is to say that he recognizes that Gnosticism, as flight from reality into a private religious world (or ideological world), is the great temptation or even treason of today, and that to combat this threat he has boldly adopted a typically Gnostic pattern of thought as the vehicle for expressing total commitment in and for the world.

The Inquisition was intended to root out religious dissent, but primarily because religious dissent meant treason.

The State had no right to interfere with religious practices so long as they did not advocate immorality or treason.