What passes for the religious left still patently lacks the organisation of the right.
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The religious left is divided in almost every other way you can imagine.
All this sounds plausible until you take a look at today's religious left.
The religious left's message is muddier, because no one has the faintest idea how Jesus would set about fixing the inner cities.
The religious left has a distinguished past in American history.
In contrast, the religious left is at least consistent, albeit in a perverse manner, especially when it concedes openly that its case for the welfare state rests on Scripture.
Look at history, and you can see the religious left at the heart of America's great social-reform movements, from the fight against slavery to the New Deal to the civil-rights movement (for some reason, Prohibition is usually left off the list).
Non-observant and observant Jews are joining forces and the anti-religious are being left behind.
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The decline of the female religious orders has left many women feeling that they no longer have a central vocation in a church that has always revered femininity in the form of the Virgin Mary.
Washington was a more religious man when he left office than when he entered it.
Tensions and unrest, often due to differing religious views, have left countries ranging from Egypt to Yemen with uncertain futures.
The ad hoc grouping of religious, community and left-wing groups, under the umbrella of the Strangers into Citizens campaign, created a festival atmosphere in London's drenched streets.
The prisoners returned to a society that was far more religious than the one they left.
The Hanukkah story is all the more a paean to religious liberty for the details left off the sanitized version taught to children for generations.
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But the drop also can be attributed to opposition from a vocal coalition that unites religious freedom groups and labour unions with left-leaning environmental groups and conservative national security bodies.
But in the United States, where respect for the Bible remains high, the left more often attempts to appropriate religious language, misquoting it in support of statist solutions.
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Having said that, I do think that there are solid arguments that people on the left can use, drawing from religious texts, for example, to make their political point, much more so than they do now.
Begin with the fact, little noticed by the left, that much of the old religious right is in a state of collapse.
The army, which has run Algeria since its independence in 1962 (with a short semi-break between 1989 and 1991), has left the state without a convincing cultural or religious identity.
When people around him finally outed the deception, Psalmanazar left his gilded halls for the life of a religious academic.
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After he came to office in early 2011, Mr Faizov started to remove conservative imams and banned religious textbooks from Saudi Arabia, whereas his predecessor had largely left the Salafists alone.
Bush came back in South Carolina amid a divisive and bitter campaign that left McCain denouncing leaders of the party's religious conservative wing as "agents of intolerance, " and Bush went on to win the presidency.
But although what is left may be wholesome and improving, it is neither as direct as the religious right's publications, nor as racy as the secular ones.
It is for this reason that, while the Greek CP wants out of the euro, the growingly influential far left parliamentary group SYRIZA does not, and neither does the hard-right religious party LAOS. Everybody can see that an external devaluation will be chaotic, painful and cause its own kind of social unrest, just as the attempted internal devaluation is doing.
Authority was left diffused because Americans have historically been suspicious of concentrated power whether political, financial or religious.
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Germany is tough on political extremists, because of its Nazi past and a struggle with left-wing terrorism in the 1970s, but it is tolerant towards most groups claiming a religious basis, such as Islamic fundamentalists (not Scientologists, though).
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