Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...images appearing on-screen, but instead serve to detract from them. Martin doubted either his ability to illustrate the plot, or the viewer's ability to understand it solely through images and dialogue. Since one can hardly believe that Martin would insult one's intelligence, one must question his faith in his own ability. One wishes that this were not the case...
...ARTICLES OF FAITH--My Father's Dreams...
...will establish a new bureaucracy with broad regulatory powers--hardly a recipe for eliminating waste or reinventing government. The plan probably puts too much faith in the ability of government to determine adequate health benefits, ensure quality, promote competition and keep costs...
Whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, believers today tend to regard their faith as a received whole -- that is, as a belief system with most of the major theoretical issues long since resolved, in so far as they can be. No 20th century Christian, for example, would bother to start an argument about the divinity of Jesus, a subject that obsessed 4th century bishops. But as Armstrong reminds us, the world's three great monotheistic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- did not arrive where they are without impassioned debates and conflicts. She contends that Yahweh was originally a savage, partisan...
...define God in terms compatible with secular thinking. Thus the Jesuit theologian Leonard Lessius (1554-1623) argued that the existence of God could be demonstrated scientifically, like any other fact. Similarly, the 19th century German exponents of the Science of Judaism argued that their religion was a wholly rational faith. Alas, the end result of treating the deity as just another provable fact was to marginalize God, thereby making it easier for unbelievers to proclaim that he did not exist...