Quotes about Ideology

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

The War on Terror is ultimately a battle for the human mind and heart.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover him at their side. To claim the comfort of the Crucified while rejecting his way is to advocate not only cheap grace but a deceitful ideology.

Caesar is only mentioned once in the gospels, and there Jesus says that there's a clear division between God and Caesar, a split of church and state, so that never the twain shall meet. Well, not so fast. We'll get to that. It sounds suspiciously modern. Did Jesus really anticipate post-Enlightenment Western ideology so exactly?

Part of the problem in our contemporary debates about asylum seekers or about the Middle East is that our politicians still want to present us with the dream of progress, the steady forward advance of the golden dream of freedom; and when the tide of human misery washes up on our beaches or when people in cultures very different from our own seem not to want the kind of freedom we had in mind, it is not just socially but ideologically untidy and inconvenient.

False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

Christians are called to tear down mental fortresses and liberate people from the power of false ideas.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.