An
apologist is someone who defends or supports a person, idea, or cause, usually by giving reasons or explanations for their actions or beliefs.
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Moreover, although it seems almost de rigueur for
apologists for soccer heading to comment that heading is much safer when proper technique is employed, I know of no empirical data that support the contention.
Mr. Revkin, you are in danger of going down a dangerous road, that of the worst kind
of apologists for fossil fuels — masquerading as environmentalists while throwing the public health concerns of the New Yorkers who are least politically and economically positioned to defend themselves to the wayside.
And then there are the early Christian
apologists who said that the reason the gospels look so much like earlier pagan writings was because Satan had made a pre-emptive strike to fool everyone.
Accounts of these infamies were retold in texts used for the instruction of children in grammar, rhetoric, and poetry in the schools of that era, as pointed out by Christian
apologists in their epoch.
Is it equally legitimate for
Catholic apologists for legal abortion, and even its facilitation by public funding, to appeal to Aquinas» teaching about the toleration of evil, as Mario Cuomo, for example, has done?
And I'm sick and tired of
apologists like you who turn a blind eye to what is actually happening in this world.
Then he could go back to cutting and pasting lucid arguments from
apologist sites (that is meant as a joke) and / or those oh so clever bible verses, just as boring.
Read the dreadful Koran and use non-Muslim experts (not
Muslim apologists who have a vested interest in fooling you) like Robert Spencer as a chapter & verse guide.
If Joel Shore or any
other apologist for Michael Mann's hiding of taxpayer - funded science can provide an excuse for Mann's refusal to disclose his taxpayer - funded data and algorithms, then now is the time to explain why the deliberate hiding of his data is acceptable.
as long that we still have plenty of
Wenger apologists, we will remain in this high level mediocrity.
If we can really assure ourselves by natural reason that God exists then that is not an article of faith, and the same goes for Christ's divinity, if, as
apologists claim, we have good rational grounds for thinking that he claimed to be divine, that he was neither mad nor a fraud, and that he rose from the dead.
Not the kind of wingding hyperbolics
from apologist geologists like «5 Tcf Terry» Engelder.
... so
many apologists for Tony Romo... he had at least 2 teams that could have gone deep into a playoff run — deep.
Rachel Weisz rails against
Nazi apologists in this sturdy court room drama for the «post-truth» age.
All that postmodern
apologists need to do is show that their opponents also stand in a particular tradition that has its own unverifiable presuppositions.
The wife of late American Christian
apologist Nabeel Qureshi has promised to dedicate her efforts to continuing her husband's legacy through his online ministry.
Christian
apologists think it is rational to seek out evidence that supports their preconceived beliefs and ignore the evidence that doesn't.
Union
apologists such as Diane Ravitch suggest that this $ 700 million political budget merely offsets the wealth deployed by «corporate - style reformers» to achieve change.
You made yourself a terrorist
apologist when you equated my country's actions in the war on terror to terrorism itself and suggested the fight against terror is the reason why it is spreading.
The Italian public intellectual Gianni Vattimo is one of the
best apologists for this «end of history» consensus.
Unfortunately, major misinterpretations of climate science still remain in Revkin's piece, and even worse, he gives credence to the views one of the most reprehensible fossil fuel
industry apologists around, Patrick Michaels.
Nick is a well
known apologist / defender of the AGW story, but I haven't seen one lie of him.
I'm something of a Mario Party
apologist around my circle of friends: Even though I haven't played the ninth console entry, I enjoy the car mechanics of Mario Party 10, and even accept Mario Party: Star Rush for the imperfect yet fun title it is.
HelsGod, you always win when you play both sides, and this is what religious
apologists try to do.
But his public persona belied the incredible love he had for those he debated, notably
evangelical apologist Larry Taunton.
Certainly Frank Browning and a host of other gay
apologists see nothing heinous in that mission.
The charges against them was sufficient enough that several early Christian
apologists came up with this whacky notion of «diabolical mimicry» — that the devil disseminated the supposedly «fake» stories before the «real» gospel accounts.
No, the question is not where was god, and we should not
become apologists for ancient literature when something bad happens, instead we should look inward right now and seek answers about how close each one of us is to the monstrosity that came out of James Holmes.
«To take it a step further, you notice that the
GLBTQ apologists keep trying to hitch their wagon to the NAACP and Loving v. Virginia in an attempt to leverage off the legitimate civil rights legal struggles that blacks enagaged in over time.
Ian Bone is a joke toy town revolutionary, and his blog has associated itself with the SWP
rape apologists,
And I know that, far from being a «Religion of Peace» as Western
apologists tend to call it, it is in fact a «Religion of War», I know about the distinction between the «Dar al - Islam» and the «Dar al - harb», between the «House of Islam» and the House of War».
This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first -
century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.