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Sentence Examples Scripture was vetted and canonized, and a creed adopted and reaffirmed against those who would challenge, alter, or undermine it. Social liberalism is an optimistic creed, which flourishes best in good times. The Lollard name is of unknown origin and meaning, but signified a return to a simpler creed. A creed is meant to summarize the explicit teachings or articles of faith, to imbed and thus protect and transmit the beliefs. But surely if any religious creed is to have validity it has to assert its authority over science? Only a prince could be captain and stand apart from the competing interests of sectionalism, race, caste, creed and customs. The liberal creed of cosmopolitanism, free trade, and peace promised to define the shape of things to come. In the absence of a creed, he cannot qualify as a heretic, but he can be found guilty of not minding his manners about the church's values. The cause of science advocacy is a big-tent issue, one which citizens of any creed or religion can endorse. Contemporary Unitarian Universalism has no creed and is an alternative to creed-based religions. Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed. The creed of the leftist religion is that any difference between people is a result of evil social forces. Our difference and argument with others is on the basis of their actions, deeds and practice and never on the basis of race, creed or religion. Our taxation system should not be based on race, ethnicity, religious belief, or creed. People should be chosen for public award or recognition on their merits, not according to their race, colour, creed or religion. This is as dutiful and strong-willed a creed as any Victorian moralist could hope for. Constitutional or not, the ideals are part of the American ethos and creed. It is the appeasers' doctrine, the creed that inhibits the comprehensive response to a heinous deed. Meritocracy really has fallen by the wayside, as a fashionable political creed. Add in the anti-capitalists' flair for dramatic protest, and you have a very attractive political creed. Show More Sentences Yet wildlife slaughter has never been the prerogative of a single race or a particular political creed. No ideology, creed or policy yet devised has ever stopped people trying to do the best for their children at a purely individual level. What have been the features of this creed that has dominated political life? Irish Toryism was the dominant political creed down to 1859, at least in terms of Westminster seats. This chosen nation myth has been the oldest and most continuous creed in American civil religion. Surely there must be more subtle and effective ways to win people over to your political creed. Their whole creed in politics, is that it is okay as long as you don't get caught. And an argument without evidence is a sorry one indeed, more akin to a creed or dogma than scientific reasoning. While the forms it takes vary, it cuts across boundaries of creed, generation and race. The discrimination against women in the name of caste and creed and the resultant ostracising too would be fought vigorously. We should all bear this in mind, for territorial ambition often goes hand in hand with the censor's creed. It is, in addition, a statement of the code of values of the Slavophile creed. Do we really want the carpers and complainers, of whatever creed, to get programmes banned? It may well be the case that free open competition is best for us all in the long term irrespective of creed or colour. I am sure he does not want a textbook answer taken from a creed or a catechism. Even if you belong to the same race, class or creed, you can be an outcaste. The media gives us gender roles and social norms to mimic and worship as creed. Jung issued a circular letter to all members firmly stating the principle that The International Society is neutral as to politics and creed. In political associations, the object of each man, is to identify his creed with that of his neighbor. An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Show More Sentences Lately, it has become harder to imagine a world where people, regardless of colour, creed or race are shown the same respect. The American creed is expressed with inspired concision in the words of the Declaration of Independence. The result is warm, humane and a compelling counter to the callous creed of Social Darwinists. For this, we will have to adopt the concept of brotherhood and fraternity and work together, regardless of caste and creed. The wheat is generally creed for the frumenty to be ready for the following morning. Do I mean everybody who professes an orthodox creed, and bows his head at the belief? Why Pagels happily swallows this camel while straining out the gnats of the creed is a mystery. The excesses of the Grand Inquisitor became the creed of administration by the temporal regime. The death of any innocent person should grieve us all regardless of nationality, political affiliation, wealth, creed, race, colour or gender. And when mourners of every age, race, and creed praised him as a great man, I wondered what His Eminence had done to merit those words. Or, as another scholar has said, the creed is an epitome and summary that guides and directs a proper reading of Scripture. After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees. Bushido, the code of the samurai warrior, was the creed of the Japanese soldiers. Yet this creed is wasted on Shanghai youth whose nostalgia keeps them glued to the city. Sousa's creed as a conductor was to entertain his audience while educating them. The mood of the broad masses is quite at odds with the creed of avarice and social reaction that animates the incoming government. To be condemned for the colour or creed you were born with, really defies reason or sanity. Equal treatment without regard to race remains the enduring promise of the American creed. It was a unifying creed for diversity of belief and faith, for the American dream of achieving individual liberty. Only some conservative Swiss Mennonites and Amish still hold on to the sixteenth-century forms of their creed. Show More Sentences Second, Anderson despised and attacked the creed of king and country, the cult of war memorials, national anthems, patriotism. As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book. The reform movement quickly attracted a huge following and, with the zeal of converts, former Roman followers adopted the new creed evangelically. It's to do with race and religion and color and creed and sexuality. It has become the creed of virtually every cultivated person. The council concluded with the emperor Constantine insisting that the bishops come to an agreement over the wording of the creed. Under every creed, monachal austerity and seclusion had been attempted. And those commercials, bleeping with the sounds of electronica and oozing indie creed, are selling establishment products to the alternative nation. And the black hejab was imposed on all non-Saudi women, regardless of their religion or creed. With every race and creed of the the world paddling on a lake in Queens, I was eager to see how a team can win or lose. Everyone without exception, regardless of creed, colour, race or class! I know that a lot of Neo-Pagans abide by some kind of creed or rede. Sensible advice turns into creed, good habits into unbreakable laws. In public debate the loud dissenters are steeped in the liberal creed. It is imperative for any development-oriented publication to cover thoughts from all sections cutting across the boundaries of religion, caste or creed. That the doctrine of the filioque and its uncanonical insertion in the Latin creed present serious obstacles to the reconciliation of churches has long been clear. Although anathemas followed against any who disagreed with the faith so formulated, there was no prohibition against altering the creed at a future council. If it is to allow diverse citizens to hammer out a common way of life, this state cannot rest upon traditional bases of loyalty such as kinship or creed. His creed, and his actions, are unthinkable, but he is also our invention. The burden that is laid upon a humanist or an atheist or someone who is not bound by any ideology or creed is that you believe in nothing but you believe in anything. Show More Sentences As the Marxist creed dissolved, the other two religions have embarked on a process of mass conversion sending missionaries out to the four corners of the globe. Slavish to this creed, planners brought us three soulless retail parks boasting multi-national chains selling artless tat on the outskirts of town. It binds us together, irrespective of creed or colour, race or religion. To be sure, most Asians, whatever their creed, eagerly embrace modernity. There is a growing desire for those issues to be dealt with once and for all and to remove discrimination against people on the grounds of their creed. Spiritualism, pan-animism, metempsychosis and reincarnation were at the radical end of a spectrum, but wide consensus existed for accepting evolution as a creed of progress. We deeply feel the heart-touching good wishes of the people across the world of all caste, color, and creed. Each of the doctrines found in this creed can be traced to statements current in the apostolic period. Instead, the Deist relies solely on personal reason to guide his creed, which was eminently agreeable to many thinkers of the time. There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed. But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed? Sikh teaching emphasizes the principle of equality of all humans and rejects discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, and gender. Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed. This fracture was caused more by political events than by slight divergences of creed. But what creed can he set against the mullah, the Beltway chickenhawk, the cyberpornographer, and the therapeutic statist? The AESC has always promoted nondiscrimination based upon gender, race or creed. At first, Mrs Thatcher did not understand how Scots could be so revulsed by her political creed. In newspapers, we used to talk about galley proofs, randoms, the stone, the creed and formes. It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays. In August 1560 the Parliament of Scotland adopted the Scots Confession as the creed of the Scottish Kingdom. Show More Sentences The degree and nature of state backing for denomination or creed designated as a state religion can vary. Although influenced by the modern symbolism and surrealism movement he refused to follow its creed. They are usually associated with a particular Coptic or Sufi saint, but are often celebrated by Egyptians irrespective of creed or religion. Constantius used his power to exile bishops adhering to the Nicene creed, especially St Athanasius of Alexandria, who fled to Rome. As debates raged in an attempt to come up with a new formula, three camps evolved among the opponents of the Nicene creed. As the University of London was the first in England to admit all, regardless of race, creed or political belief, it was largely consistent with Bentham's vision. Although the western Emperor Gratian supported orthodoxy, the younger Valentinian II, who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed. Constantine's son Constantius II, who had become Emperor of the eastern part of the Empire, actually encouraged the Arians and set out to reverse the Nicene creed. I don't much care whether that creed is called socialism, bolshevism, Portilloism or Harvey's Law, I know what I stand for and am happy to defend it. Still less should we assume that the non-elite members of Patrophilus's church understood the distinctions between a homoousion and homoiousion creed. With what astoundment would ye, if ye were alive with your merely human perfections, listen to the creed of our, so called, rational religionists! Examples from Classical Literature Religion is not intellection, for no one has ever been able to formulate a creed that is common to all religions. Thus a mistake has changed me into a conformist, though I never changed my creed. That is what everybody says when they want to prove any theory, creed, ism, or anything. I ask him his opinion of a jobless faith, of a creed which dooms a man through life to a lean and plunderless integrity. The khalsa, as the Sikh commonwealth was styled, was full of zeal for its creed, a reformed Hindooism. I am impelled by no fanatical zeal, and have no creed or cult of my own to vindicate. His convictions made him a vehement antagonist of churchdom because of its stiffness of creed and Laxness of practice. We may demand the credentials of every creed and catechise all the catechisms. Was it something in a cast of character or a tenet of a creed, or was it what any one could emulate? Lady Isabel, so easy-going and tepidly affectionate towards her children, was adamant where her social creed was concerned. Yet Languedoc furnished the most heroic martyrs for the ascetic manichaean creed. It is probably this last notion that, consciously or unconsciously, weighs most in the psychology of the absolutists creed. For whiggery, rightly understood, is not a political creed but a social caste. By the time that he changes his creed, as did McIntosh, he is past redemption. Melampus, the chief shipbuilder, was a Greek and a zealous Melchite, though he no longer dared to confess his creed openly. Certain of these were for ever twitting him publicly of his creed, race, and foibles. It was hardly safe for a republican to avow his political creed over his beefsteak and his bottle of port at a chop-house. To be content in the present, to be trustful in the future, was her unformulated creed. The darkness of uninterpreted hieroglyphics still rests to a great extent on the religious creed and practices of the Egyptians. As the revelation did not consist in doctrines, so the doctrine we require is not a creed or compend of doctrines. Show More Sentences He might have been raised to the dignity of Patrician, if he would have renounced his Arian creed. So thought the old Mormon, you remember, who used it as an argument for his creed. In regard to Muhammadanism, this creed should not, I think, be placed higher than fifth in the enumeration. But on the first two and greatest articles of his creed, how Jasper labored! It should be remembered that even our creed was to some extent decided by him. And what is the good of all your orthodoxy unless the orthodoxy of creed issues in orthopraxy of conduct? But the abandonment of so essential a portion of the Wernerian creed prepared the way for further relinquishments. In fact the Advaita philosophy countenances emotional theism only as an imperfect creed and not as the highest truth. The Secularist, is without presumption of an infallible creed, is without the timorous indefiniteness of a creedless believer. You could interpret your creed literally, or symbolically, or allegorically, or pragmatically. The creed that became the successor of the religion of Delphi found a mightier amphictyonic assembly in the conclaves of Rome. No Baconian creed will in the future limit the operations of the intellect. One of the articles of Bolingbroke's deistical creed is said by Warburton to have been concealed from Pope. In accepting the advocacy of Warburton he was obliged to abandon his equivocal attitude, and disavow the deistical creed. And, unhappily, he finds but too many followers weak enough or wicked enough to recognize his saintship and accept his creed. That is the creed of all those yonder, who sit in the camp and besiege this city. This creed formulates its relation to Scripture over and over, as the one regula by which all dogmata are to be tried. The only sect he ever really praised was the dunkers, whom he commended for their modesty in not formulating a creed. He had absent-mindedly strayed into the wrong continent and the wrong creed. It also shows his perfect freedom from bigotry, and the broadness of his creed. Show More Sentences The formulation of the democratic creed which should justify it was still to come. But that, perhaps, was a corruption of the purer and older Zoroastrian creed. The galashiels weavers, both men and masters, have made their political creed known to me, and have sworn themselves anti-radical. Pamphlets proclaimed the creed of open warfare and bade perish the thought of gumboot or of trench. Here we have nothing physical to remind us of any creed but Islamism and Hindooism. It is not true that the creed of social democracy is an essentially German creed. He imported there the grim, narrow creed he had learned in South Shields, and threw open the door for congregations. His creed had always been the unchangeableness, the indestructibility of Jinny. The Rhodian question was to be the acid test of her political creed. Anglicanism, a sober cult with a balanced creed, suits him not. The Northern States were slow to adopt the democratic creed. Since 'aroint thee, witch,' is your creed, I think you had better try him. Differences of creed are not assuaged by harmony of economic interests. It was years since he had repeated the creed of Saint Athanasius. The ever improving brain will give us an ever broadening creed. His political creed was, business before pleasure or politics. In peace, and especially in war, the young man's creed is casualness. Did anybody ever give a categorical denial to any clause of any creed? But it is Confucianism that has remained the creed of educated China. To live for others as a definite self-conscious aim was not his creed. Show More Sentences Their creed is not strengthened by its being vague and curtailed. A religious creed is definable as a theory of original causation. With such a persuasion, deism would be a more consistent creed. Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin'cured herrin's and drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. Now the Jains officially recognize all the Gods of the Hindu creed, as well as the Lingam and the Snake. It was the one point in which the Erasmian creed was at fault. To her the personal element in a creed is of more importance than the ism. But it appears never to have professed the Druse creed, remaining Sunnite. The new statement will comprise the skepticisms as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. Their language is Marathi and their creed an imperfect Brahminism. Independence and optimism are vital parts of his unformulated creed. His creed, like all the earliest creeds, was purely monotheistic. The unnaturalness of the creed which they expressed always hampered them. Cheyne could not sympathise with the creed, but she ended by respecting the brown, voluble little man. With me non-violence is part of my religion, a matter of creed. Post-Impressionism is accused of being a negative and destructive creed. You have thrown aside a creed, but you have preserved the ethic which was based upon it. We come now to the creed and organization of the waldensian Church. I have no quarrel with your partizan creed, no matter what it is. Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody. Show More Sentences She noted the weary, patient look in his face, the bent shoulders, the labor-gnarled hands, and it all seemed to symbolize the futility of his social creed. We may have progressed materialistically but the discrimination on the basis of color and creed etc still exists, which shows that we are morally bankrupt species. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of creed? Words that rhyme with creed What is the past tense of creed? What is the plural of creed? What is the adverb for creed? What is the adjective for creed? What is the noun for creed? Translations for creed Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Creech Cree credulousness credulously credulous credulity Creed creedal creedless Creedless creeds Creeds 5-letter Words Starting With c cr cre cree