Sentences with phrase «as charlatans»

The fact that Bitcoin possesses this property is absolutely astounding, and it is not something that can be installed like an app, as the charlatans behind ICOs and altcoins seem to suggest.

The attorneys that refuse to pay, or selfishly reduce their referral fees to other lawyers get clobbered in their relative legal community as Charlatans and lowlifes.

This is just a cheap knock off of James Randi's Million Dollar Psychic challenge in the hope that climatology will be branded as charlatans.

When Jones, Mann, and co were condemned as charlatans out of their own mouths, the interest for me moved from the science to the politics, or rather to the social history of CAGW.

No more dogma because the deniers have been resoundingly dismissed as charlatans, buffoons and hired mercenaries.

And while acknowledging the skills of artists including Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), Willem De Kooning (1904 - 97) and Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), he denounced many exponents of this style of modern art, as charlatans.

He has described prophets who engage in such acts as charlatans who need psychiatric treatment.

If a recognized cult leader was to publicly proclaim that an individual or group was not a member of the cult they claimed, I would pay attention, but I do not expect this to happen much as the charlatans leading the cults know that it is bad for the believer business overall when there is Infighting.

The unreflective believer may dismiss Feuerbach as a charlatan who trivializes religion.

I only wrote again because I wanted to address the Deepak Chopra as charlatan shtick.

In 2011, Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel was revealed as a charlatan who had published dozens of fraudulent scientific papers.

By the 1960s it had a rep as a charlatan's medicine, with great help from a popular fellow known as «Dr. Feelgood,» who was adding B12 to amphetamines.

Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other and they unravel the secrets of Maggie's underworld.»

That comes just three years after Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was depicted unfavorably in Paul Thomas Anderson's dramatic feature, «The Master,» with Phillip Seymour Hoffman playing the bombastic, charismatic leader — who some saw as a charlatan.

Sound of My Voice (Unrated) Mind control drama about an investigative journalist (Christopher Denham) who, with the help of his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius), infiltrates a religious cult only to fall under the spell of the charismatic leader (Brit Marling) he had hoped to expose as a charlatan.

I used to think of the American artist (b. 1955) as a charlatan.

PS Alice, Radio National wasn't «exposing» Monckton as a charlatan, just giving him a prominent national platform to air his fact - free flatulence

The «physic» is as they should be in almost every episode discounted as a charlatan.

Not exact matches

You'd consider someone who tried to pass awareness as worth hiring as naive at best — more likely, a charlatan or clown.

It's also created divisions within the industry, as evangelists and skeptics butt heads, riddling comments sections with all - caps type - yelling — «CHARLATAN!»

King would have viewed this legislation as one of the decrepit consequences of unchecked late capitalism: a wealthy, charlatan president who leverages anti-black racism and fear in order to exploit the power of the presidency for personal gain.

As more move towards this more genuine vision of our reality, the power and sway of these charlatan's who have caused humanity so much harm and suffering will lose more of their grip until they fade into obscurity.

Mormonism was started as a money - making scheme by the charlatan Joseph Smith after he failed at being a dowser (magical treasure finder).

As a non-Christian, I feel I'm more compassionate than these charlatans, Romney included.

Unlike Martin Luther King Jr., who I respect enormously for his stand against racism but otherwise view as just another lying charlatan shaman, I have not committed adultery.

It is far more significant to me that no believer, not even a top - dog charlatan shaman such as any Pope - A-Dope, can not provide factual, independent, verifiable and objective evidence for their cult's beliefs.

Nope, most Quaker meetings have fallen to the same gimmicks and charlatans as other denominations.

Unfortunately, religious droll such as yours still appeals to some people who want to be told what to do by manipulative and deceitful charlatans like yourself.»

jesus wouldn't even recognize you as a friend but as an sinner and a charlatan.

The Bible is a book of lies, written by charlatans with an agenda, and it has been used for centuries as a means to oppress innocent people, ratinoalize bigotry, justify wars, and as a hiding place for false prophets who bugger little boys and defraud little old ladies.

While I think Jones is an idiot and a charlatan (same as any so - called religious leader including the pope - a-dope), I must defend his right to believe and say whatever he likes.

Instead of facing the issue, he sought to show him up as some kind of charlatan or revolutionary or communist.

They're happy to donate to these charlatan's, as it gives them their opium high.

mormons being sent out in droves to do damage control... you guys don't need to come knock on my door, I shall tell you as the day is long YOUR «RELIGION» WAS MADE UP BY A CHARISMATIC CHARLATAN 170 YEARS AGO... YOU FOLLOW NOTHING OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THIS LAND.

If all you've ever read is the Bible, and all you've ever listened to is some fire - and - brimstone charlatan, I have no respect for your beliefs as to what the Bible says.

For most Christians it will come across as mocking at best and blasphemous at worst, though Brown says the target of his act is to send up the charlatans and frauds, not sincere believers.

I believe all religions are the product of charlatans and politicians, and sometimes ordinary people trying to survive, so my answer is simple — no it is not a sin — it is as natural as the rising sun.

So far as I'm concerned, ALL shamans should be considered charlatans until proven otherwise.

If no order had been given about what to do while the charlatan was saying his mumbo - jumbo, there would not have been a problem — those who wanted to participate as their cult requires would have done so and nobody would have been checking to see who was doing what.

The charlatans selling off instruments composed of risky home loans pulled a fast one, leaving Uncle Sam as guarantor holding the bag - while they walked away holding the money from the sales of the investment instruments.

Even Luther poured scorn on such literalism: «Oh, that heaven of the charlatans, with its golden stool and Christ sitting at the Father's side vested in a choir cope and a golden crown, as the painters love to portray him.»

The context of the reference to «hell» was for charismatic charlatans who preach a lie as a pretense for their own personal gain.

Franklin Graham, the CHARLATAN, is portraying himself as an expert on Islamic law — Sharia law The problem is that people that are exposed to this quackery — really believe what he says.

These Charlatans deserve no respect and whine that they are persecuted as a Christian, when in fact they harbor a political agenda.

Weinstein concludes we should not dismiss Savonarola as a fanatic or charlatan, as that would obscure «his noble vision and slights his strenuous efforts on behalf of social just and political liberty.»

Through some dubious business practices, King earned a reputation as one of the slickest charlatans in the game.

Back in this blog's first year Arsenal faced a team called Hull which featured an orange - faced charlatan named Phil Brown as their manager.

This country needs to frigging catch up with the rest of the developed world and have legal consequences for these charlatans posing as «midwives».

Maybe I was right not to take out the yearly licence to practice as a private legal practitioner since 2006, particularly because of charlatans of the nature of Okudzeto Ablakwa and his likes now admitted to practice in the legal profession for lack of prior challenge to character.

What all of the charlatans have to remember is that there is no such thing as a secret deal.