In the series, the character staunchly disbelieves in the paranormal, and tries to remove the initial report about child-abducting demons in the episode, only for it to be salvaged by Mulder and Scully. People were so annoyed by the nature of the character that Owens was pestered during his everyday life; during one incident, a person angrily called him a "paper shredder".
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Stan and Francine then visit Stan's dad to teach Steve a lesson. So he tells the legend of Krampus which Steve disbelieves in and Stan about him being in a pot and leaves. Then Klaus tell Hayley what she got for the family which Hayley say "not yet" and sings a song about picking the perfect gift. She then finds Roger at a bar and asked him for something which Roger already did.
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The expanded term kafir refers to anyone who disbelieves in the religion of Islam, the one that mocks the religion of Islam, who does not regard the kafiroon as kaffirs, whoever believes one's teaching is more reliable and trustworthy than Muhammad's teachings, whoever hates something of Muhammad, whoever practices witchcraft, and whoever supports the kaffirs against the Muslims (in terms of war, harming, etc.).Lewis, Bernard. The political language of Islam. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
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The Quran states: > :(An-Nisa ) O you who believe! Believe in Allah, and His Messenger > (Muhammad), and the Book (the Quran) which He has sent down to His > Messenger, and the Scripture which He sent down to those before (him), and > whosoever disbelieves in Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers, and > the Last Day, then indeed he has strayed far away. This verse addresses the believers, exhorting them to believe, implying multiple stages of belief.
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" In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities, although it can be defined as a lack of belief in the existence of any deities, rather than a positive belief in the nonexistence of any deities.Rowe 1998: "As commonly understood, atheism is the position that affirms the nonexistence of God. So an atheist is someone who disbelieves in God, whereas a theist is someone who believes in God. Another meaning of 'atheism' is simply nonbelief in the existence of God, rather than positive belief in the nonexistence of God.
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Colonel Joll not only disbelieves in their innocence but proceeds to torture them, resulting in the man's death. The Magistrate confronts Colonel Joll about the torture and death to which Colonel Joll presents the nephew's (extorted & false) confession to a fantastical notion of a barbarian uprising. Colonel Joll then forces the tortured nephew to take them to his deceased uncle's tribe where Joll apprehends women and elderly men as "prisoners of war". Colonel Joll departs the next day, which prompts the Magistrate to immediately release all the "prisoners of war".
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Freya informs him that to do so he must seek the Horn Resounding in the land of Hy-Brasil. The first note blown upon the Horn will take Erik and his crew to Asgard, the second will awaken the gods, and the third will bring the crew home. Erik sets out with a crew of all ages and professions from his village, including Harald (Freddie Jones), a Christian missionary who disbelieves in the entire narrative. Keitel Blacksmith (Gary Cady) is persuaded by his apprentice Loki (Antony Sher) into secretly opposing Erik's plan, as peace would end the demand for Keitel's swords.
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Kafir ( '; plural ', ' or '; feminine '; feminine plural ' or ') is an Arabic term meaning "infidel", "rejector", "denier", "disbeliever", "unbeliever", "nonbeliever". The term refers to a person who rejects or disbelieves in God as per Islam (Arabic: الله Allāh) or the tenets of Islam, denying the dominion and authority of God, and is thus often translated as "infidel". The term is used in different ways in the Quran, with the most fundamental sense being "ungrateful" (toward God). Historically, while Islamic scholars agreed that a polytheist is a kafir, they sometimes disagreed on the propriety of applying the term to Muslims who committed a grave sin and to the People of the Book.
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You see her when you're awake, and if you fall asleep after the fourth stage, you'll die. He also explains that Mara only appears when someone is in a deep sleep; thus, he only sleeps in brief intervals, keeping alarms and blaring music on in his house. Afterward, she goes to talk with Dr. Ellis, who disbelieves in the Mara legend and instead gives the supposed evidence rational explanations; he also explains that sleep paralysis demons can appear based on a person's culture. Later that night, Dougie's generator dies, stopping his alarm clocks; at the same time, Kate enters the third stage when she awakens in sleep paralysis, and Mara appears and places her hands around Kate's neck.
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He believes in reason and materialism, eschewing all religion and superstition, believing them to be impediments to human evolution; he looks down on anyone who does not hold his beliefs as inferior and exploitable, especially his Catholic neighbors. Conversely, he accepts others who share his beliefs as "superior", particularly women. The only individuals Joe considers to be pure are children, whom he believes have yet to be corrupted by the false moral codes of the adult world and towards whom he shows uncharacteristic displays of kindness. While Joe himself disbelieves in the paranormal, he oftentimes finds himself experiencing supernatural phenomena, including encounters with ghosts (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), visions of Hell (This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse), and meeting otherworldly beings, including Death itself (Embodiment of Evil).
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It further allowed the deportation of immigrants who became a public charge within their first two years in the country. This was the first legislation in the U.S. since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 that called for questioning potential immigrants about their political beliefs.Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1999), 220, The Act barred anyone "who disbelieves in or who is opposed to all organized government, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization entertaining or teaching such disbelief in or opposition to all organized government."New York Times: "In Defense of Anarchy," December 5, 1903 , accessed May 29, 2011 The law also limited the deportation of non-citizen anarchists to the first three years of their residency in the United States.
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An unnamed atheist Japanese salaryman, in the moment of being murdered by a disgruntled subordinate who he had fired due to poor performance at work, is confronted by an entity that declares itself to be God who condemns the salaryman for not having 'faith'. The salaryman disbelieves in its existence, criticises its various statements from his perspective as an atheist and mockingly terms it as 'Being X'. The entity decides to reincarnate the salaryman into a world where he would face sufficiently difficult circumstances to turn to Being X for help. The salaryman is reborn as Tanya Degurechaff, an orphaned girl in an alternate reality's equivalent of Imperial Germany, known as the Empire. According to Being X, if Tanya either does not die a natural death or refuses to have faith in it, her soul will leave the cycle of reincarnation and will be sent to hell for the countless sins that Tanya has committed in her previous life.
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