Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because it was motivated by "a concern for religious sensibilities rather than a dedication to scientific truth." Two weeks ago the Texas board of education repealed the controversial measure. Said American Way Coordinator Michael Hudson: "This is going to free publishers to write about science accurately, unhampered by religious dogma. It undoes ten years of creationist influence on textbook content, and it will spill over into every state...
...There is a dogma of disbelief about the degree of physical and sexual abuse in patients' backgrounds," she said...
With press and public interest in Hart intensifying, his policies and leadership style will come under closer examination. He portrays himself as the candidate unencumbered by dogma, with pragmatic ideas not easily pigeonholed. Claiming to speak for "a new generation of leadership," Hart says the contest between himself and Mondale is a choice "between our party's past and its future...
...Methodist Church is a denomination in which smoking and drinking still carry the faint air of impropriety. Conservatism remains a powerful force in other ways: homosexuality has been openly condemned by the church as "incompatible with Christian teaching," and liberation theology is regarded by some Methodist clergy as the dogma of radical leftists. Conservative members tend to blame their leaders' increasing liberalism for a serious decline in the church. Since 1968 membership has fallen by 1.5 million, Sunday-school enrollment is down by 3 million, and American Methodists sent abroad to spread the word as missionaries are down...
...difference between the men may be that Shamir cares less about dogma than Begin did and seems more open to new approaches to the old Middle East problems. Where Begin heatedly dismissed the Palestine Liberation Organization as "the Nazis of the Middle East," Shamir, says an aide, "believes that the Palestinians are human beings with their own ambitions and expectations, forming a human community the Israelis should learn to know and to understand." Similarly, Shamir has conveyed to aides his belief that Israel is part of the Arab Middle East and should not close itself into "a modern Jewish ghetto...