In Paris, meanwhile, a number of thinkers began to profess atheism openly.
During the dechristianizing campaign of late 1793 and early 1794, Grégoire continued to wear clerical dress and to profess his faith openly; as a member of the Committee of Public Instruction, he tried to save monastery libraries and religious works of art.
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration next year, it behooves the UK – whose leaders from Winston Churchill to Gordon Brown to David Cameron have openly professed to be Zionists – to acknowledge its role in the dispossession of the Palestinians, just as it should stand rightful guard against the scourge of antisemitism.
To Profess or to Inquire?
"They go there to profess the faith".
Finally, the constraints of political correctness will have been cast off, and our glorious nation will be able to openly profess Victorian racial ideology once more.
In May he announced plans for a "gay collaborative" album, saying he wished in part to atone for not openly professing his sexuality until 1998 when he was arrested in a public toilet in Beverly Hills.
In fact, I would dare presidential candidates professing a distaste for socialized medicine to call openly for abolition of the V.A. health system in favor of a purely privatized system – e.g., a defined contribution system such as that advocated for Medicare by Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Everyone, of all faiths and no faith, knows this truth, and most profess it openly.
And like many who profess godlessness openly, he has been punished.In a handful of majority-Muslim countries atheists can live safely, if quietly; Turkey is one example, Lebanon another.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: I asked you a question; does this mean that the statement can be interpreted as follows: Paragraph 3 of this decree was an ideal which you persistently strove to attain, which you openly professed, but which you were never able to attain?
