While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

A stronger stand on their beliefs and a firmer grasp on their future were taken Friday by delegates to the 29th general council of the Assemblies of God, in session at the Memorial Coliseum.

The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age.

Most Germanic tribes were generally tolerant of the Nicene beliefs of their subjects.

Democracy was far from being the normal style of governance and the beliefs on which it was based were in effect a minority opinion.

Anne shared a room with her, they were close which may have influenced Anne's personality and religious beliefs.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

Kante created N ’ Ko in response to what he felt were beliefs that Africans were a " cultureless people " since prior to this time there had been no indigenous African writing system for his language.

Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism.

Former businessmen and bureaucrats were hunted down and killed along with their entire families ; the Khmer Rouge feared that they held beliefs that could lead them to oppose their regime.

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

Gauss also upheld religious tolerance, believing it wrong to disturb others who were at peace with their own beliefs.

The commission found that there were seven main beliefs shared by representatives from different part of the movement:

These new principles were presented in the Tamworth Manifesto which is considered by historians to be the basic statement of the beliefs of the new Conservative Party.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

As with many colonists, Williams ' Puritan beliefs were enmeshed in every aspect of his life, and he used the Bible to state his case.

In computer simulations of cultural communities, beliefs were found to polarize within isolated sub-groups, based on the mistaken belief of the community's unhindered access to ground truth.

Whilst the Restoration Movement accepted Thomas's right to have his own beliefs, when he started preaching that they were essential to salvation, it led to a fierce series of debates with a notable leader of the movement, Alexander Campbell.

Organised worship in England for those whose beliefs anticipated those of Christadelphians only truly became possible in 1779 when the Act of Toleration 1689 was amended to permit denial of the Trinity, and only fully when property penalties were removed in the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813.

This characterization has been challenged by other critics who claim either that it is an anachronistic use of the word, or that her beliefs were not progressive enough to merit such a designation.

" It is likely that we have only a partial view of their beliefs, because the writings of the Cathars were mostly destroyed due to the doctrinal threat perceived by the Papacy ; much of our existing knowledge of the Cathars is derived from their opponents.

While the reformers and the Baptists shared the same beliefs in baptism by immersion and congregational polity, it was soon clear that the reformers were not traditional Baptists.

Through accumulation several other beliefs were introduced to the religion that in some instances supersede those expressed in the Gathas.

Oaths sworn by dhimmis in the Muslim courts were sometimes the same as the oaths taken by Muslims, sometimes tailored to the dhimmis ’ beliefs.

This religious explanation is supported by modern Pueblo beliefs about a North Road leading to their place of origin and along which the spirits of the dead travel.

In Taiwan, where the Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang ) strongly promoted Confucian beliefs in ethics and behavior, the tradition of the memorial ceremony of Confucius ( 祭孔 ) is supported by the government and has continued without interruption.

According to reliabilism, a belief is justified ( or otherwise supported in such a way as to count towards knowledge ) only if it is produced by processes that typically yield a sufficiently high ratio of true to false beliefs.

The chief criticism of foundationalism is that if a belief is not supported by other beliefs, accepting it may be arbitrary or unjustified.

Critics of foundationalism often argue that for a belief to be justified it must be supported by other beliefs ; in Donald Davidson's phrase, " only a belief can be a reason for another belief ".

For much of the 19th century, the church struggled as it formed its core beliefs and doctrines especially as a number of the Adventist leaders came from churches that supported the doctrine of Arianism ( although Ellen G. White was not one of them ).

They were actively supported by the missionaries who tried to destroy all signs of indigenous beliefs, notably by razing the ' mahoka ' huts where the local population worshiped their ancestors ' spirits and by ridiculing their rites, dances and other ceremonies.

He supported the Committee for the First Amendment, which opposed governmental investigation of political beliefs.

tested the following hypothesis: “ If youth culture serves to help adolescents deal with problems of vulnerability and finiteness, then reminders of mortality should lead to increased allegiance to cultural practices and beliefs of the youth .” Their results supported their hypothesis and the results of previous studies, suggesting that youth culture is, in fact, a culture.

Like many of his acculturated contemporaries, he trusted in astrology and other semi-scientific beliefs ; however, he also supported true scientists and engaged frequently in discussions with philosophers and scholars.

However, Huang Shaoxiong, also a Kuomintang member of the New Guangxi Clique, supported Bai's campaign, and Huang was not a Muslim, the anti religious campaign was agreed upon by all Guangxi Kuomintang members, so it may have not had anything to do with Bai's beliefs.

A mock-historical account of British education viewed from the year 2033, it satirised the beliefs of those who supported the Tripartite System.

After the " opening up " of the 1980s, more religious freedoms were granted, and traditional beliefs like Taoism and Buddhism were supported as an integral part of the Chinese culture.

They included the Royalists, who supported King Charles I ; the Parliamentary forces, called " Roundheads ," who later emerged under the name of the New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell ; the Fifth Monarchy Men, who believed in the establishment of a heavenly theocracy on earth to be led by a returning Jesus as king of kings and lord of lords ; the Agitators for political egalitarian reform of government, who were branded " Levellers " by their foes and who were led by John Lilburne ; and the Christian communists, who called themselves the True Levellers for their beliefs but who were branded " Diggers " because of their actions.

Gomarus immediately set himself earnestly to oppose these beliefs in his classes at college, and was supported by Johann B. Bogermann ( 1570 – 1637 ), who afterwards became professor of theology at Franeker.

However, Suslov followed the party line and supported the retreat from some of the beliefs of Marxism-Leninism.

Rogers supported an amendment to declare that people retain the right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage, and traditions on public property, including schools.

His theory of knowledge was also famously " foundationalist " in character: all justified beliefs are either " directly evident " or supported by chains of justified beliefs that ultimately lead to beliefs that are directly evident.

Some of them can be refereed as professional folklore, i. e. a widely supported set of beliefs with no real basis.

* Coherentism: Justified beliefs are all evidentially supported by other beliefs, but an infinite set of beliefs is not generated, because the chains of evidential support among beliefs is allowed to move in a circle.