Christianity usually reserved the death penalty for heresy, the denial of the orthodox view of God's view, and witchcraft or similar non-Christian practices.

The week after the story, Newsweek published a contrary view from Robert Samuelson, one of its columnists, who said the story of an industry-funded denial machine was contrived and fundamentally misleading.

In relation to this view of individuality, French Individualist anarchist Emile Armand advocates egoistical denial of social conventions and dogmas to live in accord to one's own ways and desires in daily life since he emphasized anarchism as a way of life and practice.

Full preterism is sometimes viewed as heretical, based upon the historic creeds of the church ( which would exclude this view ), and also from Biblical passages that condemn a past view of the Resurrection or the denial of a physical resurrection or transformation of the body — doctrines which most Christians believe to be essential to the faith.

Other explanations include the explanation of evil as the result of free will misused by God's creatures, the view that our suffering is required for personal and spiritual growth, the denial that God is omnipotent, omniscient, or omnibenevolent, and skepticism concerning the ability of humans to understand God's reasons for permitting the existence of evil.

A philosophical denial is just a view, a theory, which may be agreed with or not.

This is to say, that despite new information to the contrary, conventional wisdom has a property analogous to inertia that opposes the introduction of contrary belief, sometimes to the point of absurd denial of the new information set by persons strongly holding an outdated ( conventional ) view.

In this view, the tale of the Fisherman and the Little Goldfish ( in which the protagonist makes little effort to improve his lot ) illustrates the denial of responsibility.

A significant distinctive doctrine of the Church of God General Conference is denial of the personal pre-existence of Jesus Christ, but acceptance of the virgin birth ; a position in Christology historically known as Socinianism, although adherents of this view today often prefer the term " Biblical Unitarianism ".

Nevertheless, many contemporary authorities have been driven to adopt a lenient view in the face of widespread public non-observance of the Shabbat, on the presumption that it does not indicate a deliberate denial of faith, but is rather a result of ignorance and succumbing to the pressure of social and economic conditions.

The IHR was founded by Willis Carto in 1979, with the intent of promoting the proposition that the Nazi Holocaust never happened — a view known as Holocaust denial.

Consequently he argued in favor of the conservative candidate in the 2008 campaign, John McCain, and turned his disappointment on Barack Obama's victory into a denial of the " Noam Chomsky-John Pilger-Phillip Adams " view of the USA.

Their cessationist view is empirical because their denial of the continuation of the gifts is based on the historical research of early Church practices.

For example, Luther's denial of free will after the Fall is censured even though the church father Augustine had taught the same view.

According to Marx ( Marx 1964, Lucacs 1971 ) privilege blinds people to the realities of the world meaning that the powerless have a clearer view of the world – the poor see the wealth of the rich and their own poverty, whilst the rich are inured, shielded from, or in denial about the sufferings of the poor.

" Ludwig von Mises states that he relaid the general sociological and economic foundations of the liberal doctrine upon utilitarianism, rather than natural law, but R. A. Gonce argues that " the reality of the argument constituting his system overwhelms his denial.

The feminist academic and author Sally R. Munt argues that American Beauty uses its " art house " trappings to direct its message of non-conformity primarily to the middle classes, and that this approach is a " cliché of bourgeois preoccupation ... the underlying premise being that the luxury of finding an individual ' self ' through denial and renunciation is always open to those wealthy enough to choose, and sly enough to present themselves sympathetically as a rebel.

( emphasis in the original ) Irving went on to claim his life had been wonderful until Zündel had gotten him involved in the Holocaust denial movement ; van Pelt argues that Irving was just trying to shift responsibility for his actions in his letter.

Fine argues that Callisthenes's denial that a treaty was made after the Eurymedon does not preclude a peace being made at another point.

*, which argues at 143-49: " To many, notion of states ' rights stands for an anachronistic ( and immoral ) preference for the race-based denial of essential individual rights ....".

" The message this denial gives, L ' Heureux-Dubé argues, seems undeniable:

Easterbrook argues that this has occurred due to choice anxiety and abundance denial.

Similarly to de-Jasay, Hans Hermann Hoppe argues that the denial of the homesteading rule entails a performative contradiction.

Through an examination of various titular revolutions, and in particular the French Revolution, Camus argues that most revolution has involved a fundamental denial of both history and transcendental values.

This extreme example does not, however, mean that the total death toll should be lowered by three million, argues Brian Harmon in " The Auschwitz gambit: the four million variant " ( Deceit and misrepresentation: the techniques of Holocaust denial ), but rather, following a correct distribution, the total death toll still amounts to conventionally held figures.

The plaintiff, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim who is serving a life sentence, argues that the law has a disproportionate impact on African Americans and therefore violates Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act as a denial of the right to vote on account of race.

The plaintiff, Joseph Hayden, a former incarcerated felon and Campaign Director at Unlock the Block, argues that the law has a disproportionate impact on African Americans and therefore violates Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act as a denial of the right to vote on account of race, in addition to violating the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

The British tainted small feed cakes with anthrax in the Second World War as a potential means of attacking German cattle for food denial, but never employed the weapon.

" This denial of canonical status means Milingo had no authority to exercise any ministry.

In telecommunication, the term electronic deception means the deliberate radiation, reradiation, alteration, suppression, absorption, denial, enhancement, or reflection of electromagnetic energy in a manner intended to convey misleading information and to deny valid information to an enemy or to enemy electronics-dependent weapons.

In particular, a denial of a writ of certiorari means that no binding precedent is created by the denial itself, and that the lower court's decision is treated as mandatory authority only within the region of jurisdiction of that court.

" Since " self " arises in the first place merely as a delusive figment of the mind, and is then attributed by the mind to " the five aggregates of clinging or one of them ," a statement that mental analysis finds no " self " in any of its objects is, given the fact that the mind is the only means there is of investigating anything at all, equivalent to a complete denial of the " self " concept.

Several means of retaliation were used against the signatories, including dismissal from work, denial of educational opportunities for their children, suspension of drivers ' licenses, forced exile, loss of citizenship, and detention, trial, and imprisonment.

While Macbeth and Lady Macbeth insist that manhood implies a denial of feeling ( 1. 7. 45-57 ), Macduff insists that emotional depth and sensitivity are part of what it means to be a man.

Orgasm denial as a means of orgasm control is a widely practiced activity within erotic feminization.

" This denial of canonical status simply means that he has no authority to exercise any ministry.

* On the separation of state and church ( secularism ): " Since Islam is a comprehensive system of ` Ibadah ( worship ) and Shari ' ah ( legislation ), the acceptance of secularism means abandonment of Shari ' ah, a denial of the Divine guidance and a rejection of Allah ’ s injunctions.

* Chastity: A form of erotic sexual denial or orgasm denial whereby a person is prevented from access to, or stimulation of, their genitals, save at the whim or choice of their partner, usually by means of a device ( called a chastity belt or sometimes for men a cock cage ) that prevents contact and is controlled by means of a lock by the partner.

" Whether this is a denial of involvement in the event or means something else is unknown.

and it is better to be shamed and criticized by one's parents, who already consider one different and difficult to understand, than by one's peers, who are also experiencing a similar groping for and denial of adult status.

In another 1998 event, Elizabeth Ward Gracen recanted a six-year-old denial and stated she had a one night stand with Clinton in 1982.

For some individuals, an obsessive compulsion to believe, prove, or re-tell a conspiracy theory may indicate one or a combination of well-understood psychological conditions, and other hypothetical ones: paranoia, denial, schizophrenia, mean world syndrome.

In Spring 1998 Gracen recanted her six-year-old denial and stated she had a one night stand with Clinton in 1982.

Likewise, one can construe semantic internalism in two ways, as a denial of either of these two theses.

It is also called the alternative denial, since it says in effect that at least one of its operands is false.

A distributed denial of service attack ( DDoS ) occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers.

* Section 3 made violations of either the initial or supplementary act an offense ; failure of the shipowner to comply would result in forfeiture of the ship and its cargo, or a fine of double that value, and denial of credit for use in custom duties ; a captain failing to comply would be fined between one and twenty thousand dollars, and would forfeit the ability to swear an oath before any customs officer.

John Badby ( died 1410 ), one of the early Lollard martyrs, was a tailor ( or perhaps a blacksmith ) in the west Midlands, and was condemned by the Worcester diocesan court for his denial of transubstantiation.

This change in focus suggests that " coming out of the closet " is a mixed metaphor that joins " coming out " with the closet metaphor: an evolution of " skeleton in the closet " specifically referring to living a life of denial and secrecy by concealing one ’ s homosexual or bisexual orientation.

Nietzsche describes the morality of the ascetic priest as characterized by Christianity as one where, finding oneself in pain or despair and desiring to perish from it, the will to live causes one to place oneself in a state of hibernation and denial of the material world in order to minimize that pain and thus preserve life, a technique which Nietzsche locates at the very origin of secular science as well as of religion.

High additionally states that Syn is " appointed in defense " at things " in legal matters in which she wishes to refute " and that her name is connected to a saying where " a denial ( syn ) is made when one says no.

It is sometimes said that a self-evident proposition is one whose denial is self-contradictory.

It is also sometimes said that an analytic proposition is one whose denial is self-contradictory.

This would include denial by the certain loved one, or the potential to change this future through personal action.

He is the founder of the Nizkor Project, one of the first ( and largest ) websites against Holocaust denial.

In January 2005, the paper was due to run a front-page story on the Provisional IRA's denial of involvement in the Northern Bank Robbery, one of Europe's largest ever, and a column by Kevin Myers, which said that the Provisional IRA were responsible.

On January 26, President Clinton, standing with his wife, spoke at a White House press conference, and issued a forceful denial, which contained what would later become one of the best-known sound bites of his presidency:

The emotional losses created by infertility include the denial of motherhood as a rite of passage ; the loss of one ’ s anticipated and imagined life ; feeling a loss of control over one ’ s life ; doubting one ’ s womanhood ; changed and sometimes lost friendships ; and, for many, the loss of one ’ s religious environment as a support system.

With the crackdown on architects ' independence and official denial of modernism ( 1932 ), demonstrated by the international contest for the Palace of Soviets, neoclassicism was instantly promoted as one of the choices in stalinist architecture, although not the only one.