Sentences with phrase «than any ideology in»

Christian doctrines are more realistic than any ideology in existence regarding human nature.

It never really comes up — you might as well pay the raters to deliver a given outcome, because money won't be a bigger force than ideology in such cases.

Not exact matches

That's one of the many unanswered questions raised by Giuliani's stance, which seems more grounded in ideology than practice.

One of those who find in the discipline more ideology than science, Orrell argues against 10 principles of economic orthodoxy, including the rationality and predictability of the market and its potential to provide happiness.

We're at a line in the sand here, where we can continue blindly marching over the cliff, or we can get a grip: ramp down fossil fuel use immediately, get an economic system geared to fixing up the mess we've made instead of enriching the few who already have far more than enough, nourish an ideology of cooperation instead of competition, and put the technology to more intelligent uses than convenience and mindless diversion.

Abacus Data polling last month said Canadians are more likely to think the NDP will «promise anything to win votes» than the Liberals are, an unusual spot for a party so rooted in principle and ideology.

Religion is responsible for more mass murder than any other ideology in human history.

I'm not necessarily claiming that Christianity is wonderful (I'm an atheist), but that Christianity as it is known and experienced today is much, much more mellow an ideology both in theory and practice than Islam.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

Perhaps those sitting on their wallets might try to understand the dire straights that many are in and volunteer their time and energy to help rather than just denigrate those that believe in a helping hand and put their money and ideology to good use.

Women pastors who are concerned more for their people than for any ideology are less suspect and therefore probably better able to help us around the grave theological and liturgical hazards in God - language changes.

@Troy in Austin - more people were killed in the 20th century by atheistically - driven ideology than by all religious - driven killings in all of history.

The Crisis of Modernityby augusto del nocetranslated by carlo lancellottimcgill - queens, 336 pages, $ 110 There is no greater ideologue, nor any more earnest in his self - delusion, than the pragmatist who thinks he is free of ideology.

Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration: living in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or happiness.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

Apparently you are not that different in spreading your God-less ideology than any other religion.

This activity has been spurred by the prevailing market ideology, by the concomitant deregulation of the financial markets and the growth of the financial services industry and by the combination of a, fairly sluggish economy with a hot stock market that encourages paper profiteering rather than investment in plant and product.

It would be less than the truth, however, if the author's interest in writing the book were represented as merely the desire to explain ideologies.

Exploring their guilt, we find it deeper in one crucial regard than that of the tools and thralls of ideologies more manifestly political than abortion.

Also, being more interested in science and facts than ideology, we don't like to take things at face value based on what some impassioned but unbalanced individuals may think.

Benedict's own later theological conservatism owed less to any kind of ideology, I think, than to his allergic reaction to what he saw as a lack of intellectual robustness and spiritual seriousness in the seminaries where he taught.

Christianity in that sense is more than the nemesis of slavery; it is the nemesis, on the right, of hereditary privilege and natural entitlement, and, on the left, of ideologies of power and state absolutization.

But these explanations focus on psychological factors rather than providing insight into the institutional contexts in which ideas are actually produced, paid for, brought into contact with an interested audience, enacted in collective rituals, used to mobilize resources against competing ideologies, and embedded in social arrangements.

For never did laws / regime / ideology degrade mores more than in the communist countries.

Literature itself (no less than religion) is, in this view, an ideology, with the most intimate relations to social power.

It appears to them and it appears to me that many churches, ministries are more influenced by culture, more influenced by political ideology, more influenced by American nationalism than by the radical demands by Jesus to live as exiles and sojourners and refugees in this alien world called America.

Politically pragmatic liberalism may be practically necessary in pluralistic societies, but as an individualistic secular ideology it is no more viable in the long run than its illiberal counterparts.

We know today, much more vividly than did our philosophical and theological predecessors, how important economic arrangements are in shaping the values, ideologies and cultures of various states.

The use of and appeal to religious communalism is effective (at least in the short run) precisely because increasingly more people are finding a greater sense of common purpose in traditional religions than in political parties or secular ideologies.

Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).

American dominance and isolation and perfect security ended with the launching of Sputnik and the rise of a third world with its commitment to neutrality rather than to either communist or capitalist ideologies, and it challenged your notion and mine of this country's manifest destiny to be the city on the hill, the new Eden, the covenanted people — as never before in U.S. history.

The fourth definition is «the doctrines, opinions, or way of thinking of an individual, class, etc.» I used the term «ideology» in its usual, dictionary sense rather than in Strauss» idiosyncratic usage.

Indeed, a faith in revelation may release our desire to know and reinforce the spirit of criticism in a much more radical fashion than rationalism, scientism, or adherence to other ideologies would by themselves allow.

But this ideology does not allow us to consider that perhaps private business decisions are in fact making some political decisions more or less inevitable, or that the media themselves may be controlled more by economic considerations than by a devotion to democratic principles of free expression.

I've experienced powerful moments of true community within the church only to have them eventually wrecked and ruined by well - intentioned people trying to turn it into something greater, or packaging it and marketing it for church growth purposes, or inflicting it with pressure to subscribe to a homogenous ideology and lifestyle, or imposing a vision upon it that turns it into an end rather than a thing of beauty in and of itself.

I'm not angry, though I am displeased when people discuss the Bible in a public forum (like the internet) and promote conclusions based on opinion, speculation, and secular ideology, rather than clear reasoning from the Scriptures.

Ideology has replaced vision in the church turning many Chrisitans into «avenging angels» rather than «ministers of reconciliation.»

Sad to say though; it's better to believe in a bird than any of the BUSHES you worship or their ideologies.

Grace has the power to transform the world, but most Western Christians seem to have more faith in their ideology and failed political process than they do in Grace:

What is most unlikely to change is the underlying structure of these cultural interactions: the ideologies and agendas of the churches all originate outside them; the churches play a basically passive role in the cultural drama, as receptors and disseminators rather than as initiators; they «read the signs of the times.»

The general rejection of socialism in America by the by the 1850s, after an earlier flurry of interest, is to be explained far more by the victory of the ideology of individualism than as a choice between alternate ways to order a new industrial economy whose outlines were as yet hardly discernible.

Frankly, I find more serious discussion of the problems of moral relativity and political ideology in the sociological writings of Karl Mannheim and Max Scheler, and even in the structuralism of Claude Levi - Strauss, than I do in the writings of many contemporary theologians.

Frank, atheism is no more an ideology than asantaism is an ideology (I'm sure you lack a belief in Santa Claus and his Christmas Eve antics every year, yet I doubt you'd consider that lack of belief an ideology).

In many instances reconciliation with parents has been facilitated by the more stable life - style and the religious ideology of acceptance rather than confrontation.

I noted that part of the problem is that we have grown so accustomed to using the word «biblical» prescriptively (to mean, «what God wants») rather than descriptively (to mean, «that which is found in the Bible»), we have forgotten that behind every claim to a biblical lifestyle or ideology lies a complex set of assumptions regarding interpretation and application.

Many men in power fail to discern that their privilege is the result of a male - dominated ideology rather than by equal opportunity and fairness.

There is no «racism» in critiquing a religion, no different than analyzing any ideology (politics, religion, etc..)

What a case study of the American evangelical broadcasters shows us is that in many ways the ideology of television shapes religion much more easily than religion shapes it.

Perhaps it may be right to say, that in general the politically conscious educated middle class of India were guided more by the Liberal and Marxian ideologies than the Gandhian or other versions of reformed Hindu thought.

It really was a matter here of a great intellectual and moral reformation of the French people, more complete than the German Lutheran Reformation, because it also embraced the great peasant masses in the countryside and had a distinct secular basis and attempted to replace religion with a completely secular ideology represented by the national patriotic bond.23