Over the next several months, my certainty of a sentient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent deity faded steadily.
Nearby, the Shiva temple is decorated with pillars carved with images of the deity.
Yes, there was evidence for the worship of a female deity by the ancient Israelites.
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Her signature "serpent cuffs" resemble reptile scales, referring to a deity from southeastern Native American spirituality.
In modern Italy, one feminine deity is venerated above the rest: Mary, the mother of Jesus.
This proliferation of intimate spaces is called for by Jain theology, which has no single deity.
Japanese folk faith holds that, in times of change, a deity visits our world to bring blessings.
And in time, I came to see that I did not believe in a deity that choreographs crashes.
The Ionians also met annually on the island of Delos, the legendary birthplace of Apollo, their patron deity.
Last year another department store had to apologise for selling toilet seats with images of a Hindu deity.
There is a unifying design in nature, asserts Bejan but that fact requires no deity or other supernatural agent.
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There are allegations that statues of the deity have been removed from monasteries, against monks' wishes, and smashed.
Her house, which has become a shrine to the democracy movement's living deity, may be confiscated and razed.
Milton also manifestly does acknowledge that there are other sources of value than obedience to an all-knowing deity.
Because the deity is said to have poor eyesight, the host describes the meal as he serves it.
Warren Buffett has been mistakenly promoted into deity status in this buy-and-hold temple.
Hermes was always considered the deity that watched over both merchants and thieves.
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Now Silver is, of course, not some sort of strange numbers deity at whose altar we all must bow.
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This one, called Camulka, is designed around a pivotal square center, a raised platform with quadruple images of the deity.
The government reckons Japan now has no fewer than 220, 000 cults and sects, each with its own guru or deity.
But in the game of playing God, Dr Bodenschatz is bidding fair to achieve the status of a minor deity.
But gradually, as we move down the church, the old insistence on a solitary deity is replaced by the Christian Trinity.
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MPs who hold no truck with Almighty God are allowed to swear allegiance without reference to the might of any deity.
Whether you blame George Osborne, the eurozone or a vengeful deity, the fact is that many Tory backbenchers are getting twitchy.
The implication is that methods and models are neither deity nor demon, but are useful metaphorical accounts of how people can change.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity--William Shakespeare.
She has, on occasion, worn saris to work, and she keeps an image of Ganesh, the elephant-headed deity of good fortune, in her office.
All this pedestal rattling made it easier to go after a figure who by this time had become a virtual secular deity: William Shakespeare.
The local young men's group, which plays a key role at festivals by carrying the mikoshi (portable Shinto deity's house), has all but disappeared.
They presented the hymnwriter as a fragile and precarious being, often poised on the brink of desolation and desperate for the deity's comforting hand.
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