Word: denialism
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...Digging and Denial...
...speaking fees, not from church tithes or his preaching videos. He has helped poor people both materially and spiritually, and is building a 231-acre rehabilitation and jobs complex in impoverished South Dallas. He feels that the poor need a fiscal model rather than an icon of self-denial. He claims Jesus must have been rich to support his disciples. But many other Christians believe that Jesus was a poor man and that wealth corrupts. Jakes is not their preacher...
...live in a culture not your own means learning a different language - not so much in the sense of mastering foreign words but of rethinking the English you thought you knew. In Japan, "denial" seems to mean denying a despair that can be of use to no one, while "repression" means repressing the impulse to put your own circumstances before everyone else's. "Fatalism" is just a less happy word for faith. Often I'm reminded of the people I know in my native England who tell me that the country enjoyed its finest hour during the Blitz, when...
...Bush brushed off bin Laden’s reported denial of responsibility, senior administration officials stepped up their call to arms yesterday...
...biggest problem is denial,” she said. “People don’t want to think about it or do anything about...