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However, to cling childishly to the magical fancy of their supernatural aspects--while losing sight completely of what may be of value in a creed's overall point of view--this is the plight of most believers.
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?" Ann Althouse 2009
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And it stretches credibility to interpret the creed's claim that the Father,
Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009
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However, to cling childishly to the magical fancy of their supernatural aspects--while losing sight completely of what may be of value in a creed's overall point of view--this is the plight of most atheists.
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?" Ann Althouse 2009
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An ardent believer in value investing and a devotee of that creed's chief philosopher, Benjamin Graham, Mr. Metz was a constant presence on television business shows.
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Or perhaps he had in mind Mayflower descendant William Sloane Coffin, son of a Metropolitan Museum board president, who as Yale's chaplain and then as minister of Riverside Church went from being a civil rights Freedom Rider to becoming the country's leading Vietnam War protester, draft-resistance advocate (for whom civil disobedience seemed to be his creed's main sacrament), and denouncer of America's lack of "social justice."
Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008
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I had no intention of following the creed's trajectory in the twentieth century, a risky undertaking at best.
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A religion without a regular creed's no use at all.
True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson
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But he had reckoned without his creed's fatal and fundamental weakness, which is, that as Junker-Militarism promotes only stupid people and snobs, and suppresses genuine realists as if they were snakes, it always turns out when a crisis arrives that
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age.
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To keep _one_ creed's a task grown quite Herculean:
English Satires Various 1885
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