Word: creede
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...unprovable; he denied it, perhaps because of social necessity, and modern assertions on either side of the question are clouded by the racial politics of tradition vs. revisionism. For author Erickson, the power of his theme's dark vision sweeps away argument. Jefferson was the giver of America's creed of life and liberty, but he was tormented and ineffective at facing the nation's blood curse of slavery...
...theism constitutes as much a religious creed as Islam, Christianity or Judaism. All religion is fundamentally an attempt to explain the reasons behind and origins of the universe. Just as monotheists and polytheists believe on faith that one or more divine beings created the universe, atheists, just as much on faith, believe that no higher plan is behind the cosmos. Atheism is no more an objective truth than any other existential theory...
Every President has a religion, in the sense of a creed that gets him and his supporters through the day. Ronald Reagan had two religions -- low taxes and traditional values -- plus a demonology, or at least a demon -- the evil empire. George Bush disestablished the Reagan religions and offered in their place little more than a belief in the sufficiency of his own good character, which is one reason he was a one-term President...
...warned that thousands of members and clergymen would leave the church in protest. "I have become more and more disillusioned with the Church of England," declared Ann Widdecombe, an M.P. and junior minister in the Conservative government who quit the church after the vote. "Its doctrine is doubt, its creed is compromise, and its purpose appears to be party politics. This was just the last straw...
...believes in American exceptionalism, the creed of self-reliance and self-confidence identified by Emerson -- that nothing really ever happened before, and that Americans are going to do it better anyhow: "Our ability to re-create ourselves at critical junctures is why we're still around after all this time...