pseudo-religion

Archbishop Akinola, whose own Anglican Church is more threatened in some ways by the rise of Pentecostalism than by the rise of Islam, finds these teachings suspect: “When you preach prosperity and not suffering, any Christianity devoid of the cross is a pseudo-religion.”

God’s Country 2008

Archbishop Akinola, whose own Anglican Church is more threatened in some ways by the rise of Pentecostalism than by the rise of Islam, finds these teachings suspect: “When you preach prosperity and not suffering, any Christianity devoid of the cross is a pseudo-religion.”

God’s Country 2008

It is has become a pseudo-religion practiced by eco-fundamentalists in the media, has-been celebrities, Marxist radicals, and quack scientists.

Archive 2009-01-04 2009

When the truth of scripture, tradition, reason, and human experience fail to convince atheist scientists of God's existence, political expediency in advancing the agenda of the pseudo-religion of eco-tyranny works just fine.

Coffee Cup Browsing (Not So Cranky Edition) 2009

Communism combined pseudo-philosophy, pseudo-history and pseudo-religion, so its interpretation requires the skills of a philosopher, a historian and a theologian.

Books About the Cold War 2009

I am more interested in working with what modern neuroscience is revealing about the meditating brain and what somatic psychology is understanding about the nervous system than I am in faux-wisely intoning the ancient sutras of Patanjali, more interested in the possibilities of a vital, organic, living tradition that speaks to our current human condition than I am in romanticizing the past and paying lip-service to another faith-based pseudo-religion.

Julian Marc Walker - The Spiritual Psyche in the Animal Body William Harryman 2009

An exploitative pseudo-religion (with cattle-ranches, a game farm, insurance company, various commercial ventures, 3-billion dollar shopping mall, etc), all founded by an unemployable womanizer and magic-man?

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

This pseudo-religion - along with a few others I will not mention - really make me wonder how seemingly intelligent people could be a part of something so mindless.

Scientology Exposed 2007

The promulgation of this appealing, though unsubstantiated testament has resulted in its being piously accepted as a basic tenet of the secular pseudo-religion of ‘Americanism’.

The Myth of American Moral Authority 2008

Of all of the tenets of the secular pseudo-religion, Americanism, the principle dogma is that of American Exceptionalism.

American Exceptionalism 2008