We have concluded that petitioner's claims are controlled by the rationale of Gonzales v. United States, 348 U.S. 407 ( 1955 ), and United States v. Nugent, 346 U.S. 1 ( 1953 ), and therefore affirm the judgment.

We, the member congregations of the Canadian Unitarian Council, covenant to affirm and promote:

We affirm the dismissal of Crain's spurious " petition " and the assessment of a penalty imposed by the Tax Court for instituting a frivolous proceeding.

We dare not seriously affirm it, but all the same it is certain that man came out of the slime of the earth, and his first appearance must have been in the form of a rough sketch.

We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote

Plotinus writes, " We ought not even to say that he will see, but he will be that which he sees, if indeed it is possible any longer to distinguish between seer and seen, and not boldly to affirm that the two are one.

We were where we were only because of our willingness to affirm our beliefs even at the risk of physical injury.

For instance, the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy says, " We affirm that inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture.

We affirm the validity of the claims of science in describing the natural world and in determining what is scientific.

Outdoor Recreation acting chairman Phil Hoare said, " We strongly believe in the traditional bedrock values of our nation's heritage but we also affirm the separation of church and state.

We affirm that the desire for such reform is both deep and widespread through the whole community, transcending all political differences and sectional interests, and we undertake to continue united in purpose for its achievement.

We reject this conception and affirm the need for an effective class movement in and for itself, which requires new forms of action, thinking and dialogue rather than repeating the known formulas.

ORNZ acting chairman Phil Hoare stating that: " We strongly believe in the traditional bedrock values of our nation's heritage but we also affirm the separation of church and state.

We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right — and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation — to speak and act in defense of these truths.

We desire, therefore, to affirm our faith and our resolve, and to make public our covenant.

We affirm.

We remember, and we affirm: never again.

* We affirm the real historical events of Christ ’ s birth, life, death, resurrection and future return.

(" We will continue the tradition of those who, throughout the centuries, have struggled, arms in hand, to affirm our national rights.

* We declare and affirm that if in fact Paul Hill did kill or wound abortionist John Britton, and accomplices James Barrett and Mrs. Barrett, his actions are morally justified if they were necessary for the purpose of defending innocent human life.

" We affirm that the precepts of Prophecy and Healing are Divine attributes proven through Mediumship.

We ought to affirm to ourselves that the poverty of others is the responsibility of each and every member of humanity.

" We claim that there are two ways to appeal to ' necessary destructions ': that of the poet, who speaks in the name of a creative power, capable of overturning all orders and representations in order to affirm Difference in the state of permanent revolution which characterizes eternal return ; and that of the politician, who is above all concerned to deny that which ' differs ,' so as to conserve or prolong an established historical order " ( 53 ).

We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and political theory into literature and the arts.

We shall not be able entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery, the epic and the myth, and the religious evolution of early Greece ; ;

We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.

Translated excerpts from Hezbollah's original 1985 manifesto read :< div > We are the sons of the umma ( Muslim community ) ...... We are an ummah linked to the Muslims of the whole world by the solid doctrinal and religious connection of Islam, whose message God wanted to be fulfilled by the Seal of the Prophets, i. e., Prophet Muhammad.

We, the member groups of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, affirming our belief in religious community based on:

* the preamble to the Constitution of Kentucky, which states, " We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy, and invoking the continuance of these blessings, do ordain and establish this Constitution "

Watabe said about her former religious affiliation: " We ' Moonies ' were willing to sacrifice personal choice to spin gold out of the raw silk of ourselves, to help create world harmony through family harmony.

We can explore these ideas in religious ideologies such as Christianity ( as an example amongst others ).

We are not able to see how the prohibition of teaching the theory that man has descended from a lower order of animals gives preference to any religious establishment or mode of worship.

He was also responsible for removing one of the firm's ship captains for refusing to offload opium chests on the Sabbath, Matheson observed, " We have every respect for persons entertaining strict religious principles, but we fear that very godly people are not suited for the drug trade.

Berle's program was broadcast in the same time slot as Fulton J. Sheen's religious program for a while, thus leading to Berle's oft-quoted quip, " We both have the same boss – Sky Chief!

Bahrain ’ s Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa has gone out of his way to make clear that whatever religious or political persuasion, Bahrainis have the same fundamental loyalty to the state, saying " We are Bahrainis first, opposition or not.

We have a model of a liver made of bronze, whose religious significance is still a matter of heated debate, marked into sections which perhaps are meant to explain what a bump in that region would mean.

Knud Rasmussen asked his guide and friend Aua, an angakkuq ( shaman ), about Inuit religious beliefs among the Iglulingmiut ( people of Igloolik ) and was told: " We don't believe.

We believe that there is only one God, who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.

We are convinced that the religious bureaucracy in this country is racist, is an accomplice in this war, and is hostile to the poor.

We learn in them how Caliban ( democracy ), the mindless brute, educated to his own responsibility, makes after all an adequate ruler ; how Prospero ( the aristocratic principle, or, if we will, the mind ) accepts his dethronement for the sake of greater liberty in the intellectual world, since Caliban proves an effective policeman and leaves his superiors a free hand in the laboratory ; how Ariel ( the religious principle ) acquires a firmer hold on life and no longer gives up the ghost at the faintest hint of change.

Within the English Church men with whom he had both personal and religious sympathy rose -- Whately, of whom he said, " We know no living writer who has proved so little and disproved so much "; and Thomas Arnold, " a man who could be a hero without romance "; F. D. Maurice, whose character, marked by " religious realism ," sought in the past " the witness to eternal truths, the manifestation by time-samples of infinite realities and unchanging relations "; and Charles Kingsley, " a great teacher ," though one " certain to go astray the moment he becomes didactic.

" We firstly ask for the freedom of conscience or the freedom of full universal religion, without distinction as without privilege ; and by consequence, in what touches us, we Catholics, for the total separation of church and state ... this necessary separation, without which there would exist for Catholics no religious freedom, implies, for a part, the suppression of the ecclesiastical budget, and we have fully recognized this ; for another part, the absolute independence of the clergy in the spiritual order ... Just as there can be nothing religious today in politics there must be nothing political in religion.

“ We ask, secondly, for freedom of education, because it is a natural right, and thus to say, the first freedom of the family ; because there exists without it neither religious freedom nor freedom of expression .”

We also know from references in the four Gospels as well as other books of the New Testament that many of these texts were both commonly known and counted as having some degree of religious authority early in the 1st century CE.