Word: rejection
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...nonbelievers, or between liberals and conservatives. The conflict is far more subtle, a product of centuries of legal evolution. It gets to the very heart of America's identity, for it is about a clashing of rights and responsibilities: Should Christian Scientist parents be allowed, on religious grounds, to reject medical treatment for a dying child? Should Mormon parents be allowed to claim a tax deduction for the money they spend sending their children out as missionaries? Like so many other issues -- abortion, the right to die, the right to bear arms -- the issue of religion's place in American...
...three of us confess how fascinated we are by clocks. We admire them, collect them, and feel thus that we own time, or at least the mystery of time, which is to imagine it running backward or speeding us to our meeting with the future, until we reject that idea and define all time as the present: the past that we not only remember but that we imagine, as much as we imagine the future, so that both will have meaning...
Some feel comfortable identifying with well-recognized "minority groups." Others develop uniquely personal ways to define their niche within a community of difference. Still others reject labels altogether and speak of their identity only in terms of ideas and interests...
...experience in World War I. He soon saw that after the failure of the revolution in Germany in 1918, society could only be changed if a communist ideology were adopted. I believe that mankind's striving for justice and freedom led to the creation of the communist ideology. I reject what always has been a central issue in communism: power, the struggle to obtain it and to keep it. I believe that this is one of the main reasons for the failure of the communist system...
...pointed out in my Peninsula article that what makes all human beings worthy of respect is that "they are all rational beings capable of love and able to reach perfection in God." The corrolary to this is that we are all fallible, fallen creatures prove to accept evil and reject good...