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.