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  • Regarding the aforementioned statement about our history with Native-Americans, the film is not so much anti-military, as it is anti-genocide, and anti-manifest destiny, making it thus anti-ethnocentrism and anti-overbearing theocentrism.

    Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion 2010

  • The theocentrism that is evident in Malebranche's doctrines of the vision in God and occasionalism would lead us to expect that God plays a central role in his moral theory.

    Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009

  • It isn't an expression of theocentrism but anthropocentrism and ultimately egocentrism.

    Archive 2008-03-01 James F. McGrath 2008

  • It isn't an expression of theocentrism but anthropocentrism and ultimately egocentrism.

    Fixed Earth: Setting the Record Straight James F. McGrath 2008

  • This theocentrism of priestly existence is vital in our modern world where everything is entirely functional and based on calculable and verifiable exchanges.

    Benedict XVI greets the Curia Argent 2006

  • Even today the programs I've seen that are effective are ones that have this theocentrism and work on people's self-image -- not by saying, "Hey, whatever you do, you're cool.

    The Tragedy of American Compassion 1995

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