Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

Despite his distinctly authoritarian personality, Abdur Rahman called for a loya jirga, an assemblage of royal princes, important notables, and religious leaders.

Despite complaints, even by APL members, all churches, mosques, monasteries, and other religious institutions had been closed or converted into warehouses, gymnasiums, and workshops by year's end.

Despite the formal disapproval of religious authority, the segregation of women in Muslim societies and the strong emphasis on male virility leads adolescent males and unmarried young men to seek sexual outlets with boys younger than themselves — in one study in Morocco, with boys in the age-range 7 to 13.

Despite support for transsexuals from Iranian religious leaders, Iranian society itself is less accepting of them.

Despite being raised by religious parents, he later on became a deist.

Despite its religious affiliation, the curriculum is secular.

Despite differences of chronology or geography, the crucial aspects of this religious pantheon were shared amongst the people of ancient Mesoamerica.

Despite the strict guidelines, some exceptions have occurred: Bionic Commando ( though swastikas were eliminated in the US version ), Smash TV and Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode contained human violence, the latter also containing implied sexuality and tobacco use ; River City Ransom and Taboo: The Sixth Sense contained nudity, and the latter also contained religious images, as did Castlevania II and III.

Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.

Despite coming from a religious family, Noyce was an agnostic.

Despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism., Theyyam deities are propitiated through the rooster sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

Despite heavy criticism from other religious groups, there are signs that Satanistic beliefs have become more socially tolerated.

Despite some similarities between these two causes, the creation science movement represented a shift from overtly religious to covertly religious objections to evolutionary theory — raising what it claimed to be scientific evidence in support of a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Despite some challenges to religious views, however, many notable figures of the scientific revolution — including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz — remained devout in their faith.

Despite the fact that there has never been proof that Wharton's Hellfire Club ever did more than hold mock religious ceremonies and drink excessively, Wharton's political opposition used his membership as a way to pit him against his political allies, thus removing him from parliament.

Despite the loss of Mamikonian who is killed, the Armenians consider this battle to have been a moral and religious victory, since Yazdegerd, out of respect for their efforts, allows them to remain Christian.

Despite Thomas II's efforts to subordinated the local clergy under his rule, several religious Orders remained faithful to Henry IV, among others, the Franciscans.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

Despite the situation, Marie Antoinette was still required to perform charitable functions and to attend certain religious ceremonies, which she did.

Despite having a religious background, he later on became an agnostic.

Despite his own religious views and his friendship with the Emperor Julian, called " the Apostate " for attempting to restore the traditional religions of the empire, Libanius cultivated long-lasting friendships with Christians, both as private individuals and as imperial officials.

Despite his Roman Catholic post, Garvin described his spiritual position as " pandeism ' or ' pan-en-deism ,' something very close to the Native American concept of the all-pervading Great Spirit ..."

" Despite his strictness and dogmatism, he has also been described as contributing to the struggle for genuine human freedom, by teaching a duty to oppose unjust government in order to bring about moral and spiritual change.

Despite being the producers of sligs, the Tleilaxu themselves do not consume the animals, having designed them to facilitate what they see as the degrading decadence and spiritual bankruptcy of all cultures but their own.

Despite the negativity portrayed in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, being a large scale rebellion against corrupted authority, several peasant uprisings in China were patterned after the Yellow Turban Rebellion or claimed to be its spiritual successors.

Despite his opposition, she resolved to have her child and to have it baptized, to give the child a sense of spiritual belonging she had never had.

Despite evidence to the contrary, Mrs. Eddy saw much spiritual promise in the shy young man who couldn't find the courage to so much as get up and give a testimony at the Wednesday evening meetings until after he had been appointed to the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

Despite Christianity's designation as the official religion of the Empire, Augustine declared its message to be spiritual rather than political.

Despite this, recent Theosophists and Anthroposophists have tried to incorporate the facts of geology and paleontology into their cosmology and spiritual evolution ( in Anthroposophy Hermann Poppelbaum is a particularly creative thinker in this regard ).

Despite attending each evening service during the fall campaign, and after two previous unsuccessful attempts to pray through to spiritual victory during those meetings, on November 20, 1850, Crosby left her pew again and knelt at the " anxious seat " at the front of the church sanctuary, and sought an assurance of her salvation.

Despite his riches, high social status, and physical prowess, he feels restless and unfulfilled, and harbors a spiritual void that manifests itself as an inner voice crying out I want, I want, I want.

Despite its Western origins, influences and artist, and despite the fact that the statue was not considered a spiritual object at the time of its creation ( Ref: Wharton, 78 ), some Hawaiians consider the statue a receptacle of mana, a term that translates to “ supernatural or divine power ,” and associations have been drawn between it and kiʻi, figurative sculptures created by Native Hawaiians prior to Cook ’ s arrival to the Islands.

Despite being ' the national Church of the Scottish people ' as recognised by Acts of Parliament, the Church of Scotland, particularly under John Knox and later Andrew Melville ( and unlike the Church of England ), had always claimed an inherent right to exercise independent spiritual jurisdiction over its own affairs.

Despite his earlier statements regarding the spiritual nature of his experience, in 1853, Harris told one David Dille that he had held the forty-to sixty-pound plates on his knee for " an hour-and-a-half " and handled them " plate after plate.

Despite Querl's valiant effort to control them, the urges gouge out Nura's eyes, blinding her at a spiritual level, stripping the girl both of her physical and of her precognitive sight, a fate to which she quietly resigns, as long as she can still be with her lover.

Despite similarities, Evola's ideas differ dramatically from those of the fascists and, while preserving an appreciation of militarism, focus less on modernity than tradition, less on the technological than the spiritual, less on the masses than the person ( which Evola distinguishes from the individual ).

Despite the limited vocabulary of his poems, some create narratives, while others seem more like examples for use in meditative practice or even spiritual discipline.

Despite the survival of strong patriarchal elements, Friends believed in the spiritual equality of women, who were allowed to take a far more active role than had ordinarily existed before the emergence of radical civil war sects.

Despite a huge diminution in the number of its faithful during the Armenian Genocide, the patriarchate remains the spiritual head of the largest Christian community presently living in Turkey.

Despite the comparative frequency of spiritual abuse, those types of behaviour and actions which are today classified as spiritual abuse can be seen to be prohibited in the major texts and scriptures of numerous cult-religious traditions.

Despite his ardent desire to live a safely low-profile, peaceful life, Caz finds himself drawn into a strange journey of dangers both spiritual and temporal as he seeks to dispel the debilitating curse that hangs over the royal family of Chalion.

Despite the purely spiritual ideas which underlay the Agapemonite view of marriage, a son was born to one of these couples, and when the father endeavoured to carry it away an action was brought which resulted in the affirmation of the mother's right to its custody.

Despite his spiritual exhaustion, he realizes that though he may be losing his faith, he has not lost his passion for truth.

Despite these devoted spiritual efforts, he died.