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The religious conflicts following the reformation movement everywhere intensified religious prejudices and stimulated religious bigotry.
The anti-religious bigotry of Positivists is quite as bitter and irrational as the theological bigotry of religious fanatics.
He is trying to gain perfection, and the natural ripe fruit of religious perfection is bigotry, intolerance, and despotism.
These exercises and the gout released a bigotry in Charles that had hitherto been restrained by considerations of policy.
This shows, I think, that the charges of bigotry and intolerance brought against our Northern Protestants are quite unfounded.
Hines to the country with others more capable of meeting the combined influences of avarice, stupidity, bigotry, and superstition.
Not only bigotry opposed them, but there was a deep-seated, though unintelligent religious sentiment, which remonstrated against them.
It was a jubilee of the triumph of consistent courage and honesty over "blind and senseless bigotry" and unprincipled malice.
Comparing their character with that of their unbelieving neighbors, the French, I have no hesitation in preferring bigotry to infidelity.
In the treatment of Paul by his unbelieving countrymen we have a most melancholy illustration of the recklessness of religious bigotry.
Even contact and communication have been considered contaminating, and the outcome has been a condition of complete alienation and mutual bigotry.
Kingsley believed in the social as much as in the ecclesiastical hierarchy; and with an intensity which almost amounted to bigotry.
Bigotry, passion and prejudice only added force to its invectives; ridicule and calumny, dignity to its assertion of right.
A like closeness of relation exists between the virtue of intolerance and the vice of intolerance, a synonym of which is bigotry.
Nothing was left but ignorance, bigotry, intolerance, credulity, the Inquisition, the seven sacraments and the seven deadly sins.
A bad general rule is laid down, and obstinately maintained, wherever the consequences are not too monstrous for human bigotry.
In studying it, however, one should always take into account the prevailing superstitions, darkened by the bigotry of the times.
They are easily led to receive pedantry for education, bigotry for religion, constraint for order, and successful pretension for glory.
Your heart has the least share in your aristocratic bigotry; for, fortunately, your fancies have juggled the heart into a slumber.
The bigotry of medical science, even after its efficacy was known and proved, for a long time retarded its dissemination.
If this thought of Sunday is bigotry or narrowness, then I stand convicted as a bigot living outside of the nineteenth century.
The women of that royal line were uniformly conspicuous for their piety, though this was too often tinctured with bigotry.
Their professed creed is a model of orthodoxy, and it would be bigotry to oppose their outlandish and queer manner of worship.
With respect to his opinions on other subjects, his enlarged acquaintance with men and books effectually preserved him from bigotry.
The same insane bigotry which still pursues theatrical performers persecuted until lately all the arts, literature and painting more particularly.
There is in some regards a more scrupulous outward morality, but for the rest there is only cynicism, bigotry, and dullness.
All reverence for sacred association, all respect for works of skill and beauty, were lost in the indiscriminate rage of bigotry.
Of all moral qualities, avarice, credulity, and bigotry, are the most inflammable, and the Afghans have all these three in perfection.
It is honest and sincere, reflecting faithfully the physiognomy of his age; its credulity, its bigotry, and its love of show.
They dared not face the law courts lest it should come out that the professorships were the rewards of sectarian bigotry.
The Moral is instructive; because to judge well and candidly, we must wean our selves from a slavish Bigotry to the Ancients.
Naturally, we preached against this heathen idolatry in our temples, but religious bigotry isn't one of the numerous imperfections of this sector.
His remains were eagerly seized by the multitude, and venerated by all who admired his piety or detested inhuman bigotry.
The great audiences gave most applause to the broadest declarations; and the few utterances of Protestant bigotry were plainly out of place.
A philosopher might have called him an enthusiast; but, if he possessed the fervor of enthusiasts, he was guiltless of their bigotry.
His bigotry likewise would concur in recommending to him an enterprise which he might think would put heresy under his feet.
If you have received a message which carries freedom for people enslaved by ignorance and bigotry, you have no right to suppress it.
Indeed, nothing remains to his discredit as a great and simple nature, but the unavoidable bigotry and injustice of his history.
The nostrils were slightly pinched, and the lines which bigotry draws around the mouth were already defining themselves in dim outline.
Bigotry, the unwillingness to permit in others thought and language unpalatable to ourselves, has become less virulent, but has not disappeared.
The champions of religious liberty became as bigoted and intolerant as those whose intolerance and bigotry had first goaded them into rebellion.
Unhappily this heroic trait of Puritanism was coupled with a desperate religious bigotry which the world is even yet slow to forgive.
An archbishop thus leading the van against bigotry has to stand with placid unmoved front against assailants by the hundred.
With equal justice the Liberal points to the stupid bigotry with which that corrupt oligarchy, the senate, delayed necessary reforms.
Their frauds, however, were less atrocious than the savage bigotry with which they maintained their own system and infected the laity.
His acquittal certainly disappointed Mary; but it only served to convince her more and more, that bigotry and justice were incompatible.
The duke of Alva, already famous for his harshness and bigotry, was named commander of the forces, with almost unlimited powers.
The Inquisition, that terrible institution of blind hatred and bigotry, flourished here with all its malevolence and many were its victims.
The natural kindliness of her character asserted itself; her better feelings were aroused, triumphing momentarily over the bigotry of her religious opinions.
Only I must believe that, even in the matter of weather, it is good for us to be educated out of bigotry into a large-minded toleration.
Apprehending the dreadful consequences of such a refusal, especially in a village where bigotry reigned supreme, the old lady became quite disconsolate.
The Reformation and post-Reformation period was marked by that intensity of religious conviction which so often leads to intolerance and religious bigotry.
With rare exceptions we women are cruel and bigoted toward our sex, with all the characteristics of cruelty and bigotry on parade.
It is a book laid in a purity, a serenity, of space above the vapors, the bigotry and engendered spite, of dogma and creed.
In addition to being the party of violence, bigotry and fraud, it is also the party of gay liberality with other people's money.
Come up out of the jungles of ignorance and bigotry, my dear cousin, and live on the hilltops and bring your children with you.
Voltaire habitually spoke of their bigotry and prejudice with the natural bitterness of a cultivated man towards the incurable vices of ignorance.
Compiled at a time when he was the target for all the bigotry of the nation, the book is eminently dispassionate and judicial.
The French scholar came to Frederick after he had suffered every persecution that inevitably assailed a fearless writer in an age of narrow bigotry.
Yet, strange mixture of energy and cruelty, of valor and bigotry that he was, his treatment of the Indians was most oppressive.
"The political principles of that man, which he communicated to his brethren, were as full of sedition as his theological were of rage and bigotry."
Pupils came in rapidly; but the bigotry of the neighborhood was aroused, and the most amazing reports were circulated about the new institution.
Now there is this that is good about them: they were codified when India was free, before the night of religious bigotry descended upon it.
It was the misfortune of the Polish patriots, that the defense of their nationality became identified with the most furious form of religious bigotry.
Whether this gruesome story be true or not, it goes to illustrate the fact that blasphemous bigotry had largely usurped the place of religion.
From that day almost until his death his life was one long struggle against the bitterest animosity which religious bigotry could inspire.
To my utter amazement the girl, who had never shown any religious bigotry, and does not fast, or make any demonstrations, refused peremptorily.
He had no prejudices as to who should rule, except that he understood that the French narrowness and bigotry had served them ill.
Faith dies out whenever one comes to stick to one's fixed and immutable idea of Deity, and to deceive oneself, taking bigotry for genuine faith.
He assailed the strong holds of superstition and bigotry with great boldness, which sometimes alarmed the timid, and roused the prejudices of others.
Religious bigotry is a curse to civilization, and nothing should be conceded to it, but certainly the scruples of religious persons should receive reasonable respect.
Beyond the college walls, out of the reach of the contemptible bigotry of the trustees of this world, the people were calling for him.
It is stirred into mad rage by the exhortations of the priests, who naturally resent with true clerical bigotry the introduction of other creeds.
Not that they were more bigoted than other people, for in truth I think they were not, but their bigotry took a different direction.
We are reformists, and seek to benefit the world, to check the greed of wealth and the tyranny and despotism of bigotry and oppression.
These religious pictures are not just dirtied or torn or scrawled over, which might be done in idleness or bigotry, by children or by Protestants.
Most women who have lived much and loved much finally become fanatics; bigotry is often only the last form which feminine vanity assumes.
Some men look upon this temperance cause as whining bigotry, narrow asceticism, or a vulgar sentimentality, fit for little minds, weak women, and weaker men.
Bigotry in the main has always been the pervading omnipotence of those who do not care crushing out those who care in darkness and blood.
He would make friends, he would learn to be like other lads, he would forget the bigotry and narrowness to which he had committed himself.
I know this kind of liberality exceedingly well, and have ever found it to harbor more selfishness, idleness, cowardice and stupidity than does open bigotry.
Dominick, he should have a fiercer tone of bigotry, and less political finesse, than as a privy councillor in the cabinet of the Cardinal de Richelieu.
Altogether his two volumes are a curious mixture of bigotry, conceit, and unrestrained fancy, and they afforded to the present writer no small amusement.
Their poetry and their pastorals did not express the heroism, the bigotry, the tenacious honor and violent prejudices that formed their character.
He has a timidity which hinders the full exertion of his faculties, almost as effectually as bigotry cramps those of the general herd of mankind.
He flung his javelin of wit through the buckler of ignorance, bigotry and tyranny, exposing their rotten bodies to the ridicule and hate of mankind.
Against every form of racial and religious hatred, against sectarian bigotry and intolerance, every loyal American citizen should be prepared to take an uncompromising stand.
And so, having hewn through all that anarchy and bigotry and selfishness a way for the people, he called them to the work.
It bred a sturdy, brave race, intensely loyal to their rocks and hills, tenacious of their beliefs, even to the point of bigotry and martyrdom.
His description of these places is accurate in the main points, and though tainted with prejudice and bigotry, he is free from superstition and credulity.
The French protestants, driven from their native land by intolerant bigotry, had lived at home, excluded alike from public employments and fashionable society.
No anathema of bigotry could take from me the affection of my family or the respect of any friends whose respect was worth the coveting.
The origin of this slander we may trace back to the strange obliquity of principles, and the blind merciless rage which are characteristic of bigotry.
Every society, infected with the venom of bigotry, offers innumerable examples of juridical assassination, which the tribunals commit without scruple, even without remorse.
Some men look upon this temperance cause as a whining bigotry, narrow asceticism, or a vulgar sentimentality, fit for little minds, weak women, and weaker men.
None of the rigid bigotry, none of the exultant delight in morality, none of the merciless joy in trampling upon pleasure which gives him his reward.
If not, initiate me, I beseech, in the series of pretended reasoning, by which honor, honesty, and understanding such as yours, have been duped into bigotry?
Their pride, their vengeance, and, above all, their bigotry will naturally lead them to destroy a Protestant power that has dared to offend them.
Such are the results of bigotry, ignorance, superstition, and especially of civil and ecclesiastical governments, that consider learning a curse, and ignorance a blessing!
Despite, however, his perfidy, his bigotry, and his severity, he was a great monarch, and raised the power of Spain to its highest point.