Others, however, have argued that psychology is in principle neutral, neither confirming nor ruling out belief in the transcendent.
Perhaps the Supreme Court's majority cannot fully imagine that religiously motivated litigants — Muslim, Christian Scientist, Hindu, or other — as qualified and as American as the Hobby Lobby owners might ultimately use Monday's ruling to enforce beliefs far outside of the decades-long campaign of Christian evangelicals and Catholics to limit the reproductive rights of women.
"This ruling is beyond belief.
American and Arab officials said that Qatar's strategy was a mixture of ideology — the ruling family's belief in a prominent role for Islam in political life — and more hard-nosed calculations.
"The district court's ruling affirms our belief that a merger between Whole Foods and Wild Oats is a winning scenario for all stakeholders," Mr. Mackey said in a statement.
This is, in fact, the quintessential illusion of the ruling liberalism: the belief that all human beings are born freedom-loving and peaceful and become anything else only as a result of oppressive conditioning.
Critics of journalism will doubtless take heart from the ruling in the belief that the public's right to know is merely an excuse for the publication and broadcasting of information to excite prurience.
Janko Jakovljevic said the Belgrade ruling confirmed his belief that his son, Dragan, and another guard at a military barracks in Belgrade, Drazen Milovanovic, had been killed in 2004 because they had inadvertently found out that Mladic was being sheltered by Serbian officers there.
"She said she disagreed with the court and nothing in the court's ruling altered her belief that the investigation was appropriate". Because of redactions, it is unclear if the FBI investigation in that case continued against the Fisa court's objection.
DuPont has repeatedly stated its disagreement with this ruling and its belief that Judge Sargus incorrectly interpreted the findings of the independent science panel both parties agreed to adopt in the Leach settlement agreement.
He complained that the ruling showed a belief "that citizens should be reduced to racial statistics," but declined when given the chance to say Sotomayor's nomination should be rejected.
