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These include roads, cars, fences, ranchers, cities, computers, cell phones, the rich but also the ignorant poor (most of all, white-trash Trump voters), Nazis, NPR’s Kai Ryssdal, technocrats, Apple, the internet, and monotheism.
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Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
Ethical monotheism differs from ethical humanism.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 June 2021
The Canaanites were an ancient pagan people whom the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
To this figure, monotheism added a sense of the homogeneity of societies and groups.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
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Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
Ethical monotheism differs from ethical humanism.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 June 2021
The Canaanites were an ancient pagan people whom the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
To this figure, monotheism added a sense of the homogeneity of societies and groups.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
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Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own.Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain.Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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Du Châtelet was searching for a grand synthesis of Newtonian, Cartesian, and Leibnizian ideas, in the way that Viennese visionaries of the nineteen-twenties hoped to unify all the sciences, and in the way that later thinkers tried to reconcile quantum physics with Einstein—and both with theology.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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For example, Jack Lillie, a musician, deferred to his ambitious wife, R. S., a gifted medium who traveled the American west lecturing about Spiritualist theology.Marissa C. Rhodes / Made by History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
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Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
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Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
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By contrast, animation foregrounds the pictorial, which is its own aesthetic doctrine.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Russia’s nuclear doctrine holds that an attack on any element of its deterrent force justifies a nuclear response.William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
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Spiritualism allowed practitioners to forgo religious authority, scripture, and dogma when accessing the spirit world.Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made by History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
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The symbolism of debuting the presentation in Dallas–where Roe v. Wade was first argued in 1970 before reaching the Supreme Court in 1973–and in Texas–where dogma and control trump safety for pregnant women–is not lost on the curators.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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