Her nonbelieving husband, Eddie (Aaron Paul), grapples with the truth of why the cult's founder departed.
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In fiction, there's a corollary: to the nonbelieving reader, a character's religious fervor can be a hindrance.
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For them, the war of independence was above all a religious war, with Muslims on one side and Christian or nonbelieving colonists on the other.
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The episodes have a sprinkling of social commentary — No. 2, for instance, involves a seriously Christian couple troubled by their son's choice of a nonbelieving fiancée.
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Instead of arguing that the Pledge violates the First Amendment's establishment clause, they have started arguing that it violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause, because it presents an occasion for nonbelieving children to be ostracized.
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It's no objection to claim the Pew survey was biased against the sort of "religious literacy" valued by white evangelical Christians, who scored (only slightly) higher than their nonbelieving counterparts on questions about their own faith.
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King Cyrus, who is credited with allowing Jews to return to Jerusalem from exile in the Babylonian empire, represents the possibility that a nonbelieving leader and state could be used by God to reunite the chosen people and the promised land.
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Similarly, when I attended the annual conference of an organization formed to help nonbelieving high school and college students called the Secular Student Association in July 2016, I learned that getting out and helping people is a key concern for young secularists.
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The book, written by a gay, nonbelieving French journalist, Frédéric Martel, makes a simple argument in a florid, repetitious style: The prevalence of gay liaisons in the Vatican means that clerical celibacy is a failure and a fraud, as unnatural and damaging as an earlier moral consensus believed homosexuality to be.
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But it really shouldn't have been a surprise — God's Not Dead is precisely calibrated to evoke both cable news talking points about college campuses as intolerant fortresses of liberalism, and a particular school of urban legends about the humiliation of nonbelieving professors, variations of which have been circulated in email forwards and turned up in a Chick tract.
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The nonbelieving reader of sacred texts has the advantage of being undisturbed by the countless alienating passages that they contain: why be distressed, such a reader might ask, by the relentlessly patriarchal tone of either the Bible or the Quran—or by their tolerance of slavery, or, for that matter, by the tribal genocide regularly urged in Exodus?
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Or attend to the work and life of Chekhov, the good nonbelieving doctor who asserted that his "holy of holies" was the human body, the writer whose adulterous characters in "The Lady with the Little Dog" stop to look at the sea near Yalta and are reminded that their small drama is nothing alongside the water's timeless indifference: And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
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Valle-Inclán wrote up in La lámpara maravillosa (The wonderful lamp) a treaty of esoteric aesthetic. These restlessness logically derived to interest in spiritism. Even if nonbelieving in it, some Modernist authors really interrogated themselves about the part that could be right in those doctrines, and got initiated in their mysteries. In diverse forms these mysteries infiltrated in their works.
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Yet at this time he also wrote, 'By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.' And in another place at about this same time: 'Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable.
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Financial details were not released.. Fox-Genovese grew up in a household of secular intellectuals who were respectful of Christianity, but nonbelieving. For most of her adult life, she considered herself Christian only "in the amorphous cultural sense of the word." Having "thoroughly imbibed materialist philosophy," she inhabited "a world that took it as a matter of faith that 'God is dead'." In 1995, however, Fox-Genovese publicly converted to Roman Catholicism, due in part to her deep unease about "moral relativism" (since she found "a world in which each followed his or her moral compass" neither rational nor viable).
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