The contemporary Roman Catholic Church unequivocally teaches that angels and demons are real beings rather than just symbolic devices.
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Whipping was not only a method punishment but also a consciously chosen symbolic device to remind slaves of their status.
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For 2, 000 years, symbolic devices have been essential to the Catholic Church and its rituals for the faithful.
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Many people metaphorically interpret the Asura as manifestations of the ignoble passions in the human mind and as a symbolic devices.
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Individuals in its populace become symbols; but unlike their counterparts in the works of, say, James Michener, their individuality transcends every limitation of the symbolic device.
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Bush promised during the campaign not to touch Social Security money, but his budget director now dismisses the " lock box " rhetoric as a symbolic device.
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Britain focused on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American pop culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while simultaneously improving the prosperity of a society.
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An exterior example is the spire; interior examples would include details suggestive of the Trinity, the Star of David, the cross, etc . Such symbolic devices may be appropriately among the portable and impermanent furnishings, but must not be fixed . }}
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The final shot in the film again shows a severed head hanging from a rope, which may be the same image used in Part I of the film; one critic has commented that a hanging, severed head is " a symbolic device used in some Latin films to signify that the character has committed suicide ".
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The objections to " decorative and symbolic devices, narrative and didactic images ", a description that encompasses much though not all of the earliest Christian art, were much less, as these were not plausibly capable of " idolatric abuse "; according to Kitzinger, " much of the art of the Roman catacombs betrays a studied attempt to avoid any suspicion or encouragement of idolatric practices ".