Ms. Beresford was characteristically poetic: "The universe may be limitless, but I can count my life in moments of seeing you, of hearing your voice, of disbelieving in scale," she said.
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It is a public philosophy akin to what Schlesinger described as the politics of "the vital center," devoted to egalitarian reform but disbelieving in human perfection, fierce in its advocacy but humble in the face of human folly.
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In Islam, salvation refers to the eventual entrance to Paradise. Islam teaches that people who die disbelieving in God do not receive salvation. It also teaches that non-Muslims who die believing in the God but disbelieving in his message (Islam), are left to his will. Those who die believing in the One God and his message (Islam) receive salvation.
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In particular, Jose Porfirio Miranda found Marx and Engels to be consistently opposed to deterministic materialism and broadly sympathetic towards Christianity and towards the text of the Bible, although disbelieving in a supernatural deity.Miranda, Jose Porfirio (1980). Marx Against the Marxists: The Christian Humanism of Karl Marx. London: SCM Press. .
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In later Christian opinion, Circe was an abominable witch using miraculous powers to evil ends. When the existence of witches came to be questioned, she was reinterpreted as a depressive suffering from delusions."Disbelieving in Witchcraft: Allori's Melancholic Circe in the Palazzo Salviati," Athanor 22 (2004), pp. 57–65. In botany, the Circaea are plants belonging to the enchanter's nightshade genus.
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Jews and Christians claim that the word is Adonai (Jewish God). If they assume that this is the prophecy of Muhammad then this will make him God. In reply Muslim Scholars say that Jews edited the word to Adonai (Jewish God) after disbelieving in Muhammad, because they were jealous thinking that the last prophet will also come from the Israelites.
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When questioned by the manager, Martin presents himself as mentally challenged, and calls himself "Georgie". Apparently now disbelieving in a link between them, the manager asks Susan for her address, and Martin appears to make a mental note when she offers it. Sympathetic to him, Susan pays for the toy. Implying that this was a misunderstanding, the manager lets them leave.
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While one can be skeptical towards the claims of religion, one need not be hostile towards religion. Don Cupitt is one example of someone who, while disbelieving in the metaphysical and cosmological claims of his religion, holds that one can practice it with a "non-realist" perspective which sees religious claims as human inventions and myths to live by.Meister 2009, p. 15-16.
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The concept of doubt as a suspense between two contradictory propositions covers a range of phenomena: on a level of the mind it involves reasoning, examination of facts and evidence and on an emotional level believing and disbelieving In premodern theology doubt was "the voice of an uncertain conscience" and important to realize, because when in doubt "the safer way is not to act at all".
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Jango says the door is open and he can enter if he wishes. Before he enters, he is told by Jango that there are many more Noms, and so he realises the All and Only is not dead. The book is ended when Seeker enters the strange door next to Jango and enters an exact replica of the Nom's Garden that he was used to. He kneels down and asks for forgiveness for disbelieving in him after the destruction of the Nom.
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Eddy Nahmias has noted that when people's actions are framed with respect to their beliefs and desires (rather than their neurological underpinnings), they are more likely to dissociate determinism from moral responsibility. See Baumeister and colleagues also note that volunteers disbelieving in free will are less capable of counterfactual thinking. This is worrying because counterfactual thinking ("If I had done something different...") is an important part of learning from one's choices, including those that harmed others.Epstude, K., and N.J. Roese. 2008.
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In contemporary Judaism, there are mixed views on all of the aforesaid. Some Jews do not want to return to making offerings,My Jewish Learning: Understanding Biblical Sacrifice (Korbanot) some approve of things that others deem perversions (such as homosexuality),My Jewish Learning: Jewish Views on Homosexuality some see no contradiction between being a Jew and disbelieving in God, some believe lying is not intrinsically wrong,Orthodox Union: When is it permitted to tell a lie? and some do not follow the dietary laws.
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He pronounced a decree of divorce which brought upon him the enmity of the rabbi of Szántó, Eleazar Löw (), whose contention was that no divorce had ever been pronounced in Csaba, because of the uncertainty of the Hebrew transliteration of the name, and therefore it was not lawful to grant a divorce in this place. Alexandersohn's enemies were encouraged by this contention to bring charges against him, and prevailed upon Löw to try him for heresy and for violations of the dietary and ritual laws. He was accused of disbelieving in a hereafter; of saying that he would take a lenient view in all legal questions; of sleeping bareheaded; of walking four cubits from his bed without washing his hands; and of other violations of Jewish rites. In 1835 a court, composed of three rabbis, declared him unworthy of the rabbinical office.
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He first complains of the illogical and unjust discrimination against the Christians and of the calumnies they suffer, and then meets the charge of atheism (a major complaint directed at the Christians of the day was that by disbelieving in the Roman gods, they were showing themselves to be atheists). He establishes the principle of monotheism, citing pagan poets and philosophers in support of the very doctrines for which Christians are condemned, and argues for the superiority of the Christian belief in God to that of pagans. This first strongly-reasoned argument for the unity of God in Christian literature is supplemented by an able exposition of the Trinity. Assuming then the defensive, he justifies the Christian abstention from worship of the national deities by arguing that it is absurd and indecent, quoting at length the pagan poets and philosophers in support of his contention.
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