But showing the fine line he was treading, he promised not to be beholden to church authorities, and devoted the majority of his address to calling for a robust role for religion in public life, declaring there was a common moral heritage across religious lines in the country that he would champion.
His simple, earnest approach to religion and his robust patriotism show plainly in his tracts A Layman's Faith (1868) and The Manliness of Christ (1879).
Though Dennett maintains that his theory requires only a modest, "sober" version of memes, and though he properly takes to task those enthusiasts who believe that they possess a robust science, his account of religion nonetheless turns on an entity that many scientists don't believe in.
These results are robust to controls for age, religion, urban location, education, and wealth, as well as to instrumental variables estimation.
I hope this might spur them to see that they have made a mistake and to return to their historic robust defense of freedom of religion in America, something they have subscribed to for decades and which I honor them for".
Atheism in relation to religion and/or sports is quite a robust phenomenon, and the immensity of the evidence for this atheism, of which I've only given a dabbling of here, seems fully justifiable and incorruptible.
This finding is robust to controls for possible confounding effects of maternal age and religion and household geographic location.
One of those factors may be the rise of a new kind of spirituality in America, influenced by the spread of Eastern religions and New Age mysticism, and coupled with a robust American individualism.
Although we cannot completely identify 3rd and higher generation Arab and Islamic Americans, language usage, religion, or skin shade, we do find that our results are robust with respect to ancestral origin.
"It's a reminder of the difference between religion that's state-sponsored and religion that is vital, voluntary and robust".
