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We were aware that studies of American religion based on national samples could tell us mainly about what was widely believed in the present and perhaps also in the past , since religious views change relatively slowly . " It was widely believed in Rome that he was intimate with the wife of his valet , and he was notorious for his love of strong wine and candy . Natural causes were not believed in . It was widely believed in those days that maggots appeared spontaneously from rotting meat . It is admitted that he did sincerely believe in the soundness of his ship ; but the sincerity of his conviction can in no wise help him , because he had no right to believe on such evidence as was before him . The government 's denials were not believed in part because many feel that its machinery of enforcement was not up to the job . Even though it is rather obvious that unidirectional latencies between two end systems are not necessarily symmetrical , the only widely available measurement tool , ping ( and other similar utilities ) , only provide round-trip times ; furthermore , it was widely believed in the network operations community that delays are practically symmetrical . Whether or not the British actually encouraged the Cherokee to launch the attacks is not known , but it was commonly believed in South Carolina that the British had done so . One is , we are going to give the lie to the claim that the United States wanted Saddam Hussein and people like him in power , which is a lie that was widely believed in the Arab world .