wyndhy,
When I think of an “ideology”, I think of the ideas describing social needs and goals of a group, a class, or culture, or possibly the doctrines or beliefs of a political or economic system. When I think of a “theology”, I think of inquiry about or the study of God and / or religious truth.
Generally then, ideology is about humans, and theology is about God.
Referencing again
Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust, “Hitler expected his followers to worship the Nazi ideology.” Hitler’s National Socialism was an ideology, not a theology. It joins Capitalism and Communism and Socialism in that domain. None of them are theologies.
Ref:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=ideology
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idealogy
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/def...38923&dict=CALD
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theology
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/theology
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/def...82351&dict=CALD
If the body of evidence that the
theory of racial types, with the “Aryan race” conveniently perched at the pinnacle was
NOT at the heart of Nazi ideology, then I’m afraid the best we will be able to do is to agree to disagree. The evidence has persuaded most, if not all, people to that end.
Your post “it’s interesting to me that you think that religious beliefs of the american electorate are summarized in the politicians they elect..” above was the reason I explained the electoral summarization process, as I believe it to work. Starting with an electorate of
N different points of view (while granting that many of these points of view differ only slightly), an election summarizes them to
1 elected lawmaker. Whether there is a small or a large amount left to be discussed is irrelevant; a summarization occurs when the ballots are counted.
Exodus 20, verses 13 and 15 are examples of religious teachings which have indeed been written into what many people think are good secular laws.