The referendum that endorsed annexation as recently as 1969, so securing United Nations backing, was as fraudulent a vote as has ever been conducted: 1,025 carefully selected and heavily intimidated tribal chiefs unanimously declared for union with Indonesia; most subsequently repudiated the process.Aceh's case is less strong, but hardly hopeless.
As he began his Weimar period, Liszt repudiated most of his early works.
Once most educated citizens repudiated the ethic and "world view" theologians had appropriated, the cultured despisers were more contemptuous than ever.
They repudiated most French movies on the grounds of taste; they were exalted cinematic hedonists for whom film was a kind of primordial rock and roll, a secret code of ecstatic pleasures that defined their very generation.
Mr. Dylan, Guthrie's most important heir, repudiated the hectoring of his own early protest songs in "My Back Pages," when he decided he had "become my enemy in the instant that I preach".
Ryan has been shopping this idea for more than two years now, and it's been thoroughly repudiated -- most recently by the voters in the 2012 election, when Ryan and his running mate, Mitt Romney, were solidly thumped.
Most philosophers nowadays repudiate souls, but the problem of mental causation has not gone away.
And while I can't say that everyone embraced me with a (rainbow) ticker-tape parade, I can attest that the Jewish community that I was most afraid would repudiate my very existence welcomed me with open arms.
But from there it only got worse, with Obama's foreign policy repudiating most of President Bush's democracy-building gestures and opting instead for Kissingerian realpolitik, with America prepared to do business with almost any kind of dictator so long as it served our interests.
If you insist on aligning scientific knowledge with religious canon, it is far simpler and satisfying to see religion in a world of scientific explanation, than to repudiate most of our scientific knowledge in favor of poorly-translated and multi-authored statements written 3000 years ago.
