Sentences with phrase «with religious fundamentalism»

The film overlaps capitalism with religious fundamentalism courtesy of Michael Fassbender's awful character Edwin Epps, a preacher who continually misinterprets scripture to suit his own prejudices and evil behaviour.

The biggest problem with religious fundamentalism is the fact that people who promote it want their followers to be fervent in their beliefs.

We do know that the Antitheist category has much in common with religious fundamentalism.

Not exact matches

I think more effort and resources would be more effectively and more critically placed into keeping our government secular, keeping Creationism out of the science class, and religious fundamentalism away from interfering with women's reproductive choices — just to name a few priorities.

This was not true for me, and it is not true for many of the young adults who leave college with questions about science, philosophy, politics, and religious pluralism that challenge the fundamentalism with which they were raised.

Because the same media managers were at war with the fundamentalism of the religious right in this country, the reporting and commentary tended to become a running polemic against undifferentiated «religious fanaticism» that threatened the secular assumptions of Western elites who had been miseducated to believe that religion is a vestigial phenomenon from the unenlightened past.

A few acknowledge that the contest is most importantly about religion, but then go on to trivialize that reality by saying we are at war with all forms of «fundamentalism,» including the «religious right» in this country.

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Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers going to heaven and nonbelievers going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?

In this Seminar on the future of the inter-religious dialogue, it is proper that we start with the specific context of the present crisis of Indian Secularism and its relation to religious fundamentalism.

In it he makes the point that Hindutva being by nature «all embracing and looks upon every sincere religious and spiritual pursuit with equal respect, is the opposite of Fundamentalism» which is intolerant of plurality.

Exile, confusion and a gradual, painful articulation of their own stories in the face of accepted religious truth were the results of their struggle with fundamentalism.

These books provide an opportunity to explore that common story, to accept the gifts of fundamentalism along with its flaws and to revisit how religious meaning is made.

Because fundamentalism must draw its adherents from among those who are outside the religious mainstream, it tends to ally with populist extremes.

It is amazing that, after all we have been through with Galileo, Darwin, Freud and fundamentalism, von Däniken should still speak of a scientific - religious conspiracy to defend the literal authority of the Bible.

Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.

Among evangelicals, for example, belief in biblical literalism, church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements defined these groups, while among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the Church.

On the other hand, religious fundamentalism of the most bible - thumping, anti-intellectual kind has become identified in the public mind with mainstream Christian belief.

Some of course are for a straight return to the traditional integration of state and society with one or other religion, to Christendom, Hindutva or any other religious fundamentalism or communalism.

Fundamentalism seems to be a way of coping with the loss of identity, meaning and security in a society which is changing rapidly socially, politically, technologically, economically and in its religious values.

Today religious fundamentalism dominates the religious scene in the US and to a lesser extent elsewhere, leaving the main - line churches with depleted membership and waning influence.

Many of you are confusing «faith» with religious dogmatism and biblical fundamentalism.

It is not difficult for religious groups to join with secular agencies like the ACLU in opposing fundamentalism, scientific creationism and school prayer.

A heady concoction, then, with contemporary parallels for those who need them (liberal democracy versus religious fundamentalism, confessions extracted under duress) and a swashbuckling climactic sea - battle straight out of Pirates Of The Caribbean.

For all her fearsome «mastery over the thunderbolt,» she falls in love with a mortal in the twelfth century, a Spanish Arab philosopher whose books, the most famous of which is The Incoherence of the Incoherence, are banned and burned because he argues for rationalism instead of religious fundamentalism.

Wael Shawky is concerned with the complex relationship between politics and religion, fundamentalism and capitalism, religious ritual and the role of the media.

It's doing away with Muslim extremism, fundamentalism, religious extremism.

I was also slightly disturbed at the culture within the climate labs, and how much it reminded me of the religious fundamentalism I grew up with.