Word: belief
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...traditions, history and dogma often persecuted? If Islam is a religion of peace, then why is it necessary for politicians from all quarters, including the U.N., to get involved to calm the situation? Islam has become a political ideology, and Westerners need to stop appeasing its adherents in the belief that the problem lies with a few extremists. Gerry Pandarts Lincoln, England Cartoons Without Politics "Tumult in Toontown" [Feb. 20] noted that none of the three animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards (Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Howl...
...about 60% atheistic Jews and 40% Catholics who’ve changed their ways.” Harris, who falls into the former category, emphasizes that empirical truths—like the first law of thermodynamics—are the source of his atheism.“Belief is not a matter of choice, it’s simply what one takes to be true,” he says. “[Atheism] allows you to choose your own values either from reason or from experience or from desire to maximize happiness either for yourself or some totality...
...witchhunt involves attacking the powerless, a witchhunt involves a belief in the occult, a witchhunt involves magistrates who also share the belief of the people in the occult. It’s a metaphor that’s employed all too often and a very sloppy one. Surely gossip and rumor played a huge role, but it’s not as though people began deluding themselves in 1692. The people who die, the people who are sacrificed, are often powerless, often old, widowed women. Those are the people who end up being sacrificed to the fanaticism and frenzy...
...evolutionary biologists, who—restricted by the rules of science—are reluctant to extrapolate differences between the sexes into important evaluative conclusions. Therefore, he turned to the literary annals of the past two millennia for affirmations of his “common sense” belief...
...Their reluctance to join forces, even on an occasional basis, is all the more mystifying considering just how closely they work with other campus religious groups. The CSA interacts with other religious groups primarily through the Interfaith Council. Stein points to the group’s “Belief in Action” event, where members of various religious groups work together on community service projects. Brewer named Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Islamic Society, among others, as the most involved participants in the Council, but admitted that “there isn’t quite as large...