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In short, they were an inherently modern movement, even though their ideology and rhethorics were anti-modern (which is pretty much the self-contradiction at the heart of fascism).
Save Kiana Firouz Hal Duncan 2010
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Issued in 1864 by Pope Pius IX, this anti-modern manifesto catalogs modernity's errors from 1 to 80, concluding with a deliciously imperious condemnation of the view that "the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization."
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In the U.S., the continued prevalence of both a poorly educated underclass and a group of anti-modern, science-skeptical religious communities who reject equal opportunity for women makes us the "least developed" industrial society.
Carl Pope: Seven Billion and Who's Counting? Carl Pope 2011
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This isn't an anti-capitalist, or anti-modern, or even anti-growth project.
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John RobinsonIn 2009, Andrew Tait's Trouble In Amish Paradise explored the usually opaque world of the Amish, a somewhat anti-modern Christian sect that still thrives in parts of the US.
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Actually, if you want to use that analogy, then this characterization of Arab Muslims would make them quite analogous to Southern conservative whites, who are quite often not only quick to vengeful violence, but engage in huge amounts of domestic abuse, oppose modern non-clerical education, use bellicose rhetoric, frequently back the notion of an anti-modern separatist movement, and back fundamentalist religious initiatives over secular democracy.
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I'm saying that political Islamisn is an ideology that is specifically "designed" to integrate the use of modern organisational structures and technologies into an anti-modern ideological framework.
Save Kiana Firouz Hal Duncan 2010
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Rich: This isn't an anti-capitalist, or anti-modern, or even anti-growth project.
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The two models allow us to see Judaism in diametrically opposed ways: The vertical-authoritarian model reflects an atavistic, anti-modern approach that relies on superstition and magic to express Jewish values, while the horizontal-dialogical model encapsulates the wisdom of Talmudic-Maimonidean tradition in a form of critical inquiry which seeks to empower human beings to free themselves of the shackles of magical irrationality.
David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010
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The two models allow us to see Judaism in diametrically opposed ways: The vertical-authoritarian model reflects an atavistic, anti-modern approach that relies on superstition and magic to express Jewish values, while the horizontal-dialogical model encapsulates the wisdom of Talmudic-Maimonidean tradition in a form of critical inquiry which seeks to empower human beings to free themselves of the shackles of magical irrationality.
David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010
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