I had looked at them a little bit askance just because of my belief system. |
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No matter how strenuously some may try to deny it, atheism is a belief system. |
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Within his belief system he cannot budge from or question these convictions. |
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Ongoing inpatient psychotherapy helps to dismantle the anorexic belief system. |
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Read that out aloud and consider the assumptions behind that belief system. |
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Once the Pueblos regained their sovereignty, they continued that belief system. |
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I believe people today can be attracted to a belief system that is rational and defensible. |
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In this fashion, the whole of our belief system and our culture is laid bare and destroyed. |
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This kind of non-critical acceptance of a belief system is especially a feature of the three monotheistic religions. |
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Many tourists who visit Chartres cathedral have little knowledge of or respect for the medieval belief system that gave it aesthetic unity. |
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Their basic belief system is built on censorship, repression, and keeping people ignorant. |
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The director lays down his motion picture belief system, his own directorial dogma about what film should and could be. |
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They follow their own religious belief system, which disallows intermarriage and demands a strict code of morality. |
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The film's resolution doesn't necessarily endorse a conviction in a specific belief system, but, rather, belief in general. |
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Flip-flops, contrary to your apparent belief system, do not go with pencil skirts and sweater twinsets. |
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I suppose growing up in the late twentieth century, an age of unswerving rationality, it's hard to have a belief system based on faith. |
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They want the safety net of a belief system that is comfortable and familiar, but want to be more than sheep following the good shepherd. |
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He argued there that environmentalism is essentially a religion, a belief system based on faith, not fact. |
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Despite my flimsy belief system, though, something told me not to mess around with this sort of thing, even though I knew it was all guff. |
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But more than that, evangelicalism is exactly what its name suggests, a belief system that emphasizes the process of evangelizing. |
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Consider a faith, a belief system, as a theory about how the universe works. |
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In a series of flashbacks, the film dramatizes the unfortunate consequences of this belief system. |
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For instance Central Australian Aborigines never sold churingas, because they were central to their belief system. |
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She has a fairly non-standard belief system for a person of her generation. |
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I think its a snub to their belief system and they feel disloyal if they don't step up and say something about it. |
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Even the Pope feels it is politically unpropitious to avow any commitment to the RCC's official belief system. |
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If he has come to battle without a defining belief system, he usually gravitates to the spirituality he finds among his comrades. |
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It's hard not to feel as if you've co-opted part of their belief system just because you're using their words. |
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One of the most useful tools for looking at a belief system is to look at the founder or originator. |
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They also have a tendency to become rather insensately hostile to anyone who questions their belief system in any way. |
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As Macmillan realized he had been betrayed, his whole belief system, based on Edwardian values and social discretion, collapsed. |
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There are few things more firmly ingrained than one's belief system. |
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They refuse to believe in a religion that allows for adaptation and change, and correspondingly can only see outsiders as people in need of conversion to their belief system. |
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The belief system of many modern cults and spiritual groups is a hodgepodge conglomeration of ideas from religion, philosophy, psychology, the occult, and science. |
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The immutable psychic need people have for a shared belief system is precisely the premise of his political theory. |
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In other words, about twice as many people have no political views as have a coherent political belief system. |
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Evolutionary biology enjoys a privileged position at the core of this belief system because it offers explanations about why and how humankind originated. |
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A distinction might be drawn between a culture and a belief system. |
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If you cherry-pick science so that it resonates with your belief system, you are not understanding how science works. |
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Not even a daily reshuffling of his belief system that would give a less optimistic man cardiac arrest. |
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Well, this conversation comes from a hostile point of view where I have to answer for my belief system. |
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What if, however, my belief system is just my way of explaining away a strange and annoying syndrome to myself? |
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One traditional practice that is part of this belief system is anointing one's body with butter or ghee, a clarified butter used for cooking and other purposes. |
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In terms of the Scientology belief system, there exists a vast amount of religious material through which the scholar must wend her or his way. |
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One can try to apply the tenets of one's belief system to one's life. |
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No culture, no civilization, no religion, no ideology, no belief system can rest on such inhumanity. |
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The cognitive barriers are chiefly those driven by a pervasive yet largely unexamined belief system among professional investors and lenders. |
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From this belief system, cooperative projects are developed that respect reciprocal needs and a sustainable development perspective. |
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Archaeological and ethnohistorical research provides glimpses of the St. Lawrence Iroquoian's belief system. |
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I list them here as an intuitive start to our understanding of science as a particular belief system, a particular approach to knowledge. |
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In both cases representations would be of places which are judged through a belief system to be naturally sacred. |
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There are very few jobs where having a particular belief system is an essential qualification. |
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For the Aboriginal people, the circle of life is the basis for their belief system. |
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We will try to integrate local knowledge of grizzly bears with scientific knowledge using belief system modeling. |
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One way to understand a mythology or belief system is to look at how people view the sacred or images of God. |
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As a result, no religious acknowledgment could claim to be an instance of ceremonial deism if it explicitly favored one particular religious belief system over another. |
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The cognitive dissonance inherent in this belief system makes it far less likely for a student to pursue the sciences for personal, family and community reasons. |
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Readers will not get a strong sense of the historical processes that led each of these four groups to the structure and belief system present in the contemporary world. |
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For a primary but still integrated judgment of the validity of the belief system theory it is most suitable to confine oneself to the field of research named political socialization. |
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Never mind that the patriarchal belief system woven throughout the cartoon content is itself shockingly outdated. |
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In religion, or astrology, or any other belief system, revision is a kind of defeat. |
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So it is not certain that he has opted to leave the shadows and head toward the bright lights of an evidenced-based belief system. |
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The basis for the modern-day sovereign belief system is a conspiracy theory that is as outrageous as it is confusing. |
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An ancient belief system that lays claim to the absolute truth is ranged against modern institutions with a record of cover-ups and suppressing the truth. |
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There is a need to go deeper into a so-called spiritual belief system of your own divining. |
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If only we did live in a world where these evil aforementioned monstrosities have and never will happen, to give up my whole belief system would be a price I would gladly pay. |
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But, contrary to the way outsiders love to categorise the unreconstructed left, they treated those who did not share their belief system with much good-humoured tolerance. |
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His three laws of planetary motion are a powerful illustration of how the scientific output of a great mind can be a byproduct of a belief system tempered by the analysis of data. |
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Unitarian theology, therefore, is distinguishable from the belief system of modern Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist churches and fellowships. |
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It is still Nontrinitarian because, according to this belief system, Jesus has always been beneath God, though higher than humans. |
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Luciferianism, on the other hand, is a belief system and does not revere the devil figure or most characteristics typically affixed to Satan. |
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Ensure that neither you nor your management team impose a work ethic on others that is contrary to their personal belief system, or at odds with their needs. |
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Behaviour that erodes or destroys a woman's cultural or religious beliefs by ridiculing or penalising them or forcing her to adhere to a different belief system. |
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The services themselves need to be designed by Aboriginal people to make them work as a reflection of the culture of the host community and the belief system found there. |
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Many traditional forms of self-governance include a belief system that supervises and monitors peaceful coexistence among peoples in sharing the multidimensional natural world. |
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So I think the military has come a long way, but anytime you attempt to change a belief system and an organization steeped in tradition, it becomes very difficult. |
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And by every spiritual belief system imaginable. |
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The fact is that nonbelievers have always been considered suspect for not supporting the prevailing belief system of the power structure. |
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Lauwers said teaching competencies is wasted effort unless some attention is paid to the value and belief system that actually makes the person want to behave that way. |
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In that case it would be a nontrinitarian belief system not necessarily associated with the Unitarian religious movement. |
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Proselytism is the act of attempting to convert by persuasion another individual from a different religion or belief system. |
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In the 870s, Norwegian settlers left their homeland and colonised Iceland, bringing their belief system with them. |
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Although it is difficult to reconstruct the belief system through archaeology, some indicators of ritual practice do leave physical traces. |
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In addition, Owen, a deist, criticised organised religion, including the Church of England, and developed a belief system of his own. |
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The beauty of McNair's performance is that it is totally up front, totally real, and yet it is itself a mirage, in that it simply encourages the audience to swap one belief system for another, the moneyless one. |
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Wicca is an ancient belief system that originated in prehistoric times. |
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Secularism is having the courage to question everything in such a way that no one belief system – religious or otherwise – is permitted to dominate. |
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Here there is no dogma, only evidence. No-one is asked to adhere to any belief system, nor to follow any guru or shaman other than the spiritual guide which each person finds within him or herself. |
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A basic element of the animistic belief system is that these souls must remain in harmony to sustain health. |
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Bonhoeffer stood against Nazism and Aryanism while German Protestant churches of the time accepted both as part of their belief system. |
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Everyone has an overall moral framework or belief system. |
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For some, that amounts to a laudably consistent belief system. |
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Among the peoples of the allods, a new belief system arose, a cult of Humans, Orcs and Arisen who welcomed the demons as just punishment for the inhabitants of the allods. |
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To destroy embryos willy-nilly, whether it be for a lofty purpose or a lesser purpose, is something I cannot accept in my convictions and in the belief system to which I hold. |
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This tacit belief system goes beyond the physical and emotional dimensions of life and includes the spiritual aspect of who we are as peoples of this land. |
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To speak as though atheism were a belief system alongside varieties of religious belief is simply a category mistake,' he said. |
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The criterion for assessing a belief system for Hume is based on the balance of probability whether something is more likely than not to have occurred. |
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Religion is generally defined as a belief system concerning the supernatural, sacred or divine, and practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. |
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They decided to work with dignitaries from Minh Ly Dao, which is a sect of Cao Dai, a syncretic belief system founded in early-20th-century Vietnam. |
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This typically entails the sincere avowal of a new belief system, but may also present itself in other ways, such as adoption into an identity group or spiritual lineage. |
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Cunliffe explains dismissively that these trippyhippies are merely pratfall prancers, who have no real knowledge or connection to Britain's ancient belief system. |
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These findings suggest that anger toward God may result in a loss of faith, perhaps even misotheism, a recent term denoting a belief system of hatred toward God. |
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There was great excitement and curiosity about the links that many Nigerians have to Cuban Santeria, the Yoruba belief system still practised widely in Cuba today. |
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Uluru, an immense monolith, and Kata Tjuta, the rock domes located west of Uluru, form part of the traditional belief system of one of the oldest human societies in the world. |
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Astronomy should not be confused with astrology, the belief system which claims that human affairs are correlated with the positions of celestial objects. |
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