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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

  • And it stretches credibility to interpret the creed's claim that the Father,

    Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    Former Accountant Worked to Build 2008

  • 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

  • I had no intention of following the creed's trajectory in the twentieth century, a risky undertaking at best.

    New South Creed: Looking Backward, 2001-1970 2003

  • A religion without a regular creed's no use at all.

    True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson

  • 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

  • To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age.

    All Things Considered 1905

  • To keep _one_ creed's a task grown quite Herculean:

    English Satires Various 1885

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