There is perhaps no phase of human thought which the Christian churches have not used in the advancement of theirdivisive creeds and pet speculative doctrines.
Divisive propaganda is designed to split apart the component subgroups of the enemy and thereby reduce the effectiveness of the enemy group considered as a single unit.
In many cases the members of such organizations become more loyal to them than to the community; organizations become self-centered and divisive rather than being devoted to the community good.
Such a conception of the Deity proves divisiverather than unifying.
And how divisive and anti-social, rather than unifying, dogma has been, and how deadening to real moral endeavor!
War and the blood feud, however divisive between groups, were none the less potent as uniting factors within the several groups.
But as the conception of religion as a spiritual relation becomes clearer, the tendency must inevitably be to disclose religion as essentially a unifying rather than a divisive and discordant force.
States are still arrayed against States, with patriotism, loyalty, as an internal virtue, and the distrust and hatred of divisive hostility as the counterpart vice.
Men may believe in human solidarity and in the worth of effort, and yet be following divergent ideals and divisive enthusiasms.
But a few years later it became a highly controversial issue, and finally a divisive one.
In the East it became a divisive issue in 1809, and only a minority adopted it.
But he early outgrew any interest in these divisive issues and sought ways of promoting unity at least among the Seceders.
Only the last two of these had any lasting importance as divisive issues.
Another divisive force that is frequently posed by the media is national patriotism versus proletarian internationalism.
The longest, most divisive war in our history was winding toward an unhappy conclusion.
We must resist this divisive propaganda--we must destroy it--with the same strength and the same determination that our fighting men are displaying as they resist and destroy the panzer divisions.
Yet while we have worked to advance national aspirations for freedom, a divisive force has been at work to divert that aspiration into dangerous channels.
What were the feelings of the individual who had been such a divisive force in the Charleston convention?
Political ideals and customs were also a divisive force in Illinois society.
This, if practicable, would have brought in a system of group capitalism as divisive and antisocial, in the large sense, as private capitalism itself, and far more dangerous to civil order.
Wealth owned in that way could only be a divisive and antisocial influence.
It remains something like a miracle that the members of Paul's churches could ever be brought together, and that their consciousness of oneness could ever overpower the tremendous divisive forces.
That God may powerfully overturne all wicked plots and designes of Antichrist and his followers, and all divisive motions against the course of Reformation, and the so much longed for Union of the King and Parliament.
Beyond each frontier, however, nationalism has become one of the most divisive sources of misunderstanding, controversy, disruption and conflict presently cursing mankind.
The stresses and strains of the current great revolution have introduced into western civilization new disintegrative forces of which the capitalist-Marxist confrontation is the most extensive, divisive and decisive.
In the evolution of the movement for Christian union, it was soon discovered that human creeds, as standards of church or ministerial fellowship, are divisive in their nature and prevent the reunion of God's people.
It was further discovered that human names for God's people were divisive in nature and a barrier to Christian union.
Even those who have abandoned the Hindu faith and professed another, do not leave behind them this divisive spirit.
When Sakya Muni came upon the scene, he saw the terribly divisive system sending down its root like the banyan tree on all sides and absorbing the life and thought of the people.
In addition to the blight of character, wealth exerts a desocializing and divisive influence.
Would a successful socialist organization create a stronger sense of solidarity or would divisive interests get in by new ways?
The divisive force of Protestantism seemed to have spent itself.
The progress of events, the establishment and acknowledgment of American independence, and the constant expansion of the Methodist work, brought its own solution of the divisive questions.
It is not unlikely that their divisive work of church organization may have contributed indirectly to defeat the aspirations of their fellow-Germans after the perpetuation of a Germany in America.
Many a divisive motion hath not been counted dangerous, of those which tended to divide us from the Covenanted cause.
Together with Britain it would be ours to enjoy, and in the common possession of these vast domains the divisive forces between the British and American peoples would vanish.
The problem, therefore, is to promote this economic internationalism and to limit as far as possible the disturbing influence of the divisive national interests.
The divisive or analytic process remains to be considered.
The one is the compositive or synthetic, the other, the analytic or divisive process.
