Sentences with phrase «attack upon reason»
The resurgence of religion is linked with an attack upon reason.
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Implied in much of the new religious emphasis is an attack upon reason.
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Karl Barth famously attacked apologetics — the attempt to offer a persuasive account of Christian belief on mutually agreed - upon grounds of reason — as a misguided task, part of the failure of theological liberalism.
Perplexed, they reasoned among themselves, «The man is going to make some attack upon us so that he may enslave us and take our donkeys»!
The refugee situation is not a cause of the attack in any meaningful way, it makes no sense for European countries to stop accepting refugees for that reason, let alone to mount some sort of crazy operation based upon the notion that it would be a risk.
Upon finding a television set, they begin to uncover the reason why these attacks are happening and reciting one of many iconic phrases within this movie, «It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder.
The amygdala reacts to the threat of attack by initiating a reaction within the brain which overrides the neo-cortex (the «rational» thinking part) and physically precludes any reliance upon intelligence or application of reasoning.