Word: dogmas
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...VIEW IS THAT THIS IS backward: the biology of consciousness offers a sounder basis for morality than the unprovable dogma of an immortal soul. It's not just that an understanding of the physiology of consciousness will reduce human suffering through new treatments for pain and depression. That understanding can also force us to recognize the interests of other beings--the core of morality...
...library during that time, and that was something we always wanted to do.... Look, we had autonomy when we were at Disney, and operated as our own company even when we were within the Disney sphere. Other than some instances where they didn?t release our films, such as Dogma and Fahrenheit 9/11, we were given freedom...
Kick-starting his run for the White House four years early, the perennially well-coiffed Mitt morphed into a talking-points Ken doll (Mehlman that is, although his handsome, rather plasticine features are reminiscent of the Mattel icon), traveling around the country and spouting Republican dogma when wound up. And when he is in Massachusetts, he utilizes his powers as chief executive largely as a mechanism by which to appeal to the Republican Party base...
...Ruining Our Pun Re "A Not-Quite-Immaculate Conception" [Oct. 16]: The headline for the report on actress Keisha Castle-Hughes' pregnancy confused the Immaculate Conception of Mary with the virgin birth of Jesus. Roman Catholic dogma teaches that Mary was conceived without original sin and therefore didn't need to be baptized. Kenneth Sweigart Paradise, Pennsylvania...
...there be 501(c)(3) forms and tax deductions and another religious reason for violent polemics.” In an age when the line between God and government has blurred, the federal injection of old-time religion into charity seems to have been a doubtful dogma after all. Over the past week, David Kuo, a former White House staffer, has published a book and traveled the talk show circuit to reveal that the Bush administration has been using “faith-based initiatives” for anything but the Lord’s work...