Word: belief
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...Dawkins explains, if there is a God, it would be a lot bigger and more incomprehensible than anything any religion has to offer and more than even science can explain. God is beyond religion, beyond laws and beyond science. As a practicing Catholic with some faith and a strong belief in logical reason, I thank you, Richard, for your rational and scientific description of God. Ben Santillan Makati City, the Philippines...
...father from a daughter and of another father from his sons, the terminal cancer of one offstage character and the accidental death of another. Simon views the background of the play as "a war, a household war." Yet the play looks at grim events with a tempered optimism, a belief not so much in happy endings as in the renewable dignity of human beings. Simon, always generous to his characters, seeks the utmost in forgiveness for them here. He will not take sides, not even in the battle between a mother deserted by the only man she has ever loved...
...though, Cameron has avoided making many explicit policy statements, relying instead on warm and fuzzy ideas like a belief in "social responsibility" that he says will empower business, individuals and local government. But in Britain's red-meat political and media landscape, warm and fuzzy is rarely enough. Popular attitudes to politicians are still set by the tabloids, which take no prisoners. And so far, the red tops aren't convinced. "I can't get to grips with Cameron, and I don't think the electorate can," says Trevor Kavanagh, the longtime political voice of the Sun. Here...
...David Cameron: Yes. He's a politician whose approach I just find very stuck in the past. It's all about top-down big government solutions, and if you look at the tax credit system, the NHS computer, the national ID card scheme, this belief in big government solutions solving the problems of the world. I just take a totally different view. Compared with Labour's state control, what we need is what I call social responsibility, which is trusting professionals to run our public services more, trusting parents to bring up their children more, trusting business to tackle some...
...pretend there are divisions where there aren't any and so to operate in a more reasonable and sensible way. Now there are plenty of things we don't agree about. Between me and Gordon Brown, as I've said, there's a big division between his belief in state control and my belief in social responsibility, but in terms of facing Blair there have been times when I've helped him to get legislation through the House of Commons, like the schools bill. It was a good bill, gave schools some extra independence and I was happy...