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religious belief

n. a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality" [syn: religion, faith]

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The only case in which the higher ground has been taken on principle and maintained with consistency, by any but an individual here and there, is that of religious belief: a case instructive in many ways, and not least so as forming a most striking instance of the fallibility of what is called the moral sense: for the odium theologicum, in a sincere bigot, is one of the most unequivocal cases of moral feeling.

The Order's 44th canon, while allowing choice of religious belief, prohibited all who had taken vows from holding formal position in any religion, cult or ideological movement.

It is not the province of a history of literature to state whether a change in religious belief is for the better or the worse, but it is necessary to ascertain how such a change affects literature.

And I am just as glad not to have died in Texcala, for the people there have one religious belief so simplistic that it is ridiculous.

At intervals he nudged me to point out how some religious belief of these faithful matched the dogma of the Faith.

But they do understand, far better than effete Europeans, that the theory of evolution constitutes a very dangerous attack on the psychology of religious belief.