Word: belief
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...question, this is one wet action movie. It sets a world's record for so-called tough guys shedding tears. Harry Osborn (James Franco) gets weepie over his father's death, and enraged at his belief that Peter was responsible for it; he vents his rage in the supervillain guise of the New Goblin. Before being transformed into the irradiated Sandman, Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), the recidivist hoodlum - and murderer of Peter's sainted uncle - goes all soft and moist as he clutches his young daughter's locket. Peter has a jewelry fetish too: his aunt has given...
...When faced with a conflicting belief in the lecture halls, Jones says, “I’m forced to come up with an argument about why that’s not true...
...effectively meaningless. The Faculty’s recent equivocation is a case-in-point. Less than two weeks after deciding by a twenty-vote margin to forestall the inclusion of “history” into the General Education category “Culture and Belief,” the Faculty reversed course and mandated that every student must take at least one class dealing with the “study of the past.” How exactly this newest obligation would practically fit into the General Education program is unclear. Including the study of history appears...
...well-known, longtime exiled oppositionists, along with the leaders of the essentially autonomous Kurdish areas. The differences in approach were clear and starkly articulated. The vice president himself summed up the dilemma: The choice, he said, was between "control and legitimacy." [Undersecretary of Defense] Doug Feith clearly stated his belief that it would not be necessary for the Iraqi exiles to legitimize themselves: "We can legitimize them," he said, through our economic assistance and the good governance the U.S. would provide. They never understood that, fundamentally, political control depends on the consent of the governed...
It’s time for the atheist in America to come out of hiding. Atheists should be able to openly declare their beliefs without fear of alienation in the workplace, school, and home. The idea that belief in God is a prerequisite to morality must be dispelled so that atheists may receive the tolerance they deserve...