creed
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Therrien’s generic chapel stands not for any particular denomination or specific religious creed, but simply for the common reality of established doctrine operating throughout daily life.
From Los Angeles Times
It was the creed that President Abraham Lincoln placed at the center of our national identity.
Jefferson’s Declaration established with “theological lucidity” that any person who shares its creed can be or become an American.
It is no accident of history that those creeds and movements that reject capitalism—Nazism, Soviet communism, radical Islam—also feature noxious antisemitism.
Huntington wrote that America’s initial elements of identity were race, ethnicity, culture and creed.
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