adherent (of) | a person who supports a particular idea or party; hołdujący |
convert (to) | someone who has taken on a new set of beliefs; neofita |
fanatic | (disapproving) someone with a very strong belief |
radical | someone who believes there should be extreme changes |
reactionary | (disapproving) someone opposed to change or new ideas |
bigot | (disapproving) someone with strong, unreasonable beliefs who don't accept other arguments |
an assumption | unquestioning acceptance that sth is true |
to derive from | to has origins in |
to eradicate | to abolish, to get rid of |
postulates | basic principles; postulaty |
a consciousness | an awareness |
to usher in | to introduce |
credible | believable |
credulous | gullible, naive |
to give/lend/add credence to sth | (formal) to accept that something is true |
ingenuous | trusting, sincere, often in a way that seems foolish |
to ascribe/attribute | to consider sth caused, created or possessed by a thing or person |
a tenet | one of the pronciples on which a belief is based |
to give sb the benefit of the doubt | dać komuś kredyt zaufania |
to take sth with a pinch of salt | brać coś z przymrużeniem oka |
I don't buy it | Nie kupuję tego (nie wierzę w to) |
Pull the other one | Nabieraj kogoś innego |
I wasn't born yesterday | Nie urodziłem się wczoraj (nie wierzę w to) |
What do you take for? | Za kogo ty mnie masz? (nie wierzę ci) |