deliverances

Behind the smartly painted doors pastors make a living by 'deliverances' - exorcisms - for people beset by witchcraft, something seen to cause anything from divorce, disease, accidents or job losses.

12/12/2007 2007

Veblen puts forth the lawn as an example of how “everyday life affords many curious illustrations of the way in which the code of pecuniary beauty in articles of use varies from class to class, as well as of the way in which the conventional sense of beauty departs in its deliverances from the sense untutored by the requirements of pecuniary repute.”

60 in 60: #38 – Thorstein Veblen’s Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin’s Great Ideas Series) 2010

Having grown up in a conservative Christian environment, and having seen and tried organized religion's recipe, I know first hand that being religious doesn't always impart such existential assurances and deliverances.

G. Elijah Dann: A Note To The Pope: Thanks, But I Do Have Meaning In Life G. Elijah Dann 2010

But I hold it to be made the duty of the Assembly by the Constitution of the Church, to abstain from all political deliverances, and to confine itself exclusively to ecclesiastical action.

Lauri Lebo blog and the End of the World - The Panda's Thumb 2010

And it is clear that the genocidal axiom conflicts with the deliverances of normal moral perception.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

And it is clear that the genocidal axiom conflicts with the deliverances of normal moral perception.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

An exposure of the duplicities, deceptions, and hypocrisies of the deliverances on "System of Doctrine": Made by various General assemblies of the Presbyterian ... by the Denver General assembly, May, 1909 by R.

Thank you, Dennis Miller! 2009

And it is clear that the notion that squares A and B of the Adelson checkerboard are equally dark conflicts with the deliverances of normal visual perception.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

And it is clear that the genocidal axiom conflicts with the deliverances of normal moral perception.

Carry-Over Thread 2007

And it is clear that the notion that squares A and B of the Adelson checkerboard are equally dark conflicts with the deliverances of normal visual perception.

Carry-Over Thread 2007