Ling might have been much better off remaining forever in the warmth of hightech habitats, basking in the glow of a messianic faith.

E.g. Noel O'Sullivan's five major themes of fascism are: corporatism, revolution, the leader principle, messianic faith, and autarky.

And yet, they are also reclaiming an abandoned element of the religion; Judaism, after all, was the original Western messianic faith.

"God recreates the world every second," she says, explaining her messianic faith to me.

Some express an almost messianic faith in the company's chairman, Bill Gates, who has said "no one should think that shareholder value would be preserved."

Some express an almost messianic faith in the company's chairman.

The near messianic faith of IKEA employees in the rightness of their cause can lead to an odd insularity.

While skeptics wondered whether the oil would last, Rockefeller exhibited a fierce, messianic faith in its future.

But aren't the flat-tax fans the same voters who only yesterday placed messianic faith in a balanced budget?

Baathism, in his telling, was structurally very similar to fundamentalist religion, a totalitarian and messianic faith.