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1) A form of public discourse that fuses religious language with popular opinion, leading to confusion between religious and political speech in the public square. 2) The damage that occurs to a religious tradition or to public discourse over policy when the two are fused. 1) The baseball commentator committed demoligion when he covered the time-out with a religious rant about men's God-given authority over women.
2) The outrage over the building of a mosque neglected the Bill of Rights and the doctrines of tawhid and human solidarity, causing demoligion of civil discourse and public perceptions of Islam and Christianity. |
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