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  • Professed belief is second nature to Christianity.

    Archie and the New Atheists 2007

  • Professed Christians who oppose abortion or murder its providers out of religious conviction are unhinged IDIOTS who've eschewed the Bible for the ignorant ravings of Televangelists.

    A Hell of a Ride Steven Barnes 2009

  • Jonathan Riley-Smith will be giving 3 lectures on “The Templars and the Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land, 1120-1291.”

    Archive 2008-09-01 papabear 2008

  • Jonathan Riley-Smith will be giving 3 lectures on “The Templars and the Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land, 1120-1291.”

    The New Beginning papabear 2008

  • Jonathan Riley-Smith will be giving 3 lectures on “The Templars and the Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land, 1120-1291.”

    Archive 2008-08-31 papabear 2008

  • The book is also, in part, an answer to Mary Astell's The Christian Religion as Professed by a Daughter of the Church which was published as a reply to A Discourse Concerning the Love of God.

    Lady Damaris Masham Hutton, Sarah 2007

  • The Jesuit was to take the Chinese to Rome secretly, as a witness of the conduct of the good fathers in China, and in the meantime Fouquet and his companion lodged at the house of the Professed, Rue St. Antoine.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • They might have feared the wrath of the SPIW Self-Professed Incredibly Wonderful, or perhaps been reproaching themselves for not being sufficiently pc.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Duke Coverage: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly 2007

  • Professed goals of punishment, norms constraining the use of power in the pursuit of these goals, the aspiration for justice in punishment -- all these, if Foucault is right, turn out to mask other (not necessarily conscious) intentions among reformers that belie the ostensible rationality (not to say rationalization) of their aims since the Enlightenment.

    Punishment Bedau, Hugo Adam 2005

  • Next came the Novices; They bore no Tapers, as did the Professed, but moved on with eyes bent downwards, and seemed to be occupied by telling their Beads.

    The Monk 2004

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