Sentences with phrase «by the ignorance which»

He writes, therefore, to»... insist and protest in the Lord that you must give up living like pagans, for their purposes are futile, their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dullness of heart has produced in them.»

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Come on now and stop all the bigotry, which is fueled by pure ignorance and (Fox News LOL) and start educating yourself more before you spout off ridiculous rants against Muslims or other religions foreign to your beliefs.

anything predicate on ignorance and division, which religion is, can not prevent violence — and quite often as evidenced by history, instigates and propagates violence.

the AnViL: «anything predicate on ignorance and division, which religion is, can not prevent violence — and quite often as evidenced by history, instigates and propagates violence.»

Ignorance of the space - age world in which the message takes shape is not justified by the low religious - knowledge quotient of commentators such as Roger Bingham.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

In twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate life.

But, to deny a scientific fact which has been supported by just as much evidence and data as gravity or the germ theory is plain ignorance.

It is tempting to take Jesus as a teacher but not a Redeemer, because to do so inflates our ego — our problem is not rebellion against God (sin) but mere ignorance, which can be corrected by a good teacher.

(Acts 3:17) But this ignorance was in part at least the result of a mysterious blindness that had come upon them as a judgment for their sins, their initial unresponsiveness mounting eventually to active hatred and a «blind» fury of malice by which they attributed everything he said or did to the inspiration of Beelzebul, the chief of devils.

Rather, the rose candle, like the Christmas tree, proclaims with G.K. Chesterton that in the fullness of time, marked by so much sin and ignorance, «joy is the uproarious labour by which all things live.»

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

The cumulative results of human degradation, ignorance, greed and venality over the ages have created a conspiracy of suffering which can only be undone by a new injection of wisdom and a new conspiracy of love - love of God and love of neighbour.

Whatever through the pressure of sin, evil communion from others, pain and ignorance can not be repaired or even healed a little in this time, is still covered by that living, personal, continuing redemption which consummates beyond the grave what could not be operated here.

Thus, a serene indifference to the human need for fixed spiritual maps by which we can navigate through life, no matter how variable the weather, betrays an ignorance of the major meaning of religion for human existence.

In physics, for example, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or principle of indeterminacy has been interpreted in three ways: 1) that the «laws of nature» are deterministic, and that any uncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner Heisenberg).

it'll be great to have legislation limiting the hate, bigotry, and ignorance which is being propagated by religious zealots.

People from all three Abrahamic religions are very upset by this campaign which arises out of ignorance and Islamophobia.

As Elizabeth Eisenstein says in her book on the role of the printing press, Protestant clergy «viewed printing as a providential device which ended forever a priestly monopoly of learning, overcame ignorance and superstition, pushed back the evil forces commanded by Italian popes, and, in general, brought Western Europe out of the dark ages.»

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

fossil record... genetic data...» @Chad «I guess you missed my post which demonstrated that you are (by design or ignorance I know not which) conflating the two definitions of «evolution», and as such you are merely constructing a strawman..

Given over to fearful crime and passion, plunged in the blackest ignorance, preyed upon by hideous and grotesque delusions, yet steadfastly serving the profoundest of ideals in their fixed faith that existence in any form is better than non-existence, they ever rescued trimphantly from the jaws of ever - imminent destruction the torch of life, which, thanks to them, now lights the world for us.

The Thomist agrees, therefore, that a culture informed by grace is one in which metaphysical realism should flourish, and a culture of ignorance of or indifference to the mystery of Christ is one in which metaphysical disorientation often follows.

The other possibility is enjoyment of God, in which God accepts and receives into Himself the man who, in his ignorance and impotence and by his free decisions, has yet been possessed of the kind of «becoming» which makes him thus acceptable and able to be received by God.

The effective sense in which a doctrine has been held in the past can not be determined by the mere logical analysis of verbal statements, made in ignorance of the logical trap.

The question of saving power in the nation is the question of whether there is a minority, even a small one, which is willing to resist the anxiety produced by propaganda, the conformity enforced by threat, the hatred stimulated by ignorance.

This spirit has been suffocated by the Socratic presumption that «virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy,» and Nietzsche indicts his age for «that Socratism which is bent on the destruction of myth.

We are passing through a great cultural change in which the idea, long dominant in science, that chance is «only a word for our ignorance of causes» is being replaced by the view that the real laws of nature are probabilistic and allow for aspects of genuine chance.

It is hard to believe that so famous and so powerful a testimony to the emotional intensity of which friendships are capable could have been excluded from this anthology by accident or ignorance.

While we were so busy with Prop 8, Chick Fil A, DOMA, and Rick Perry's strange idea of sniffing feces for gay conversion therapy we let the hate and ignorance spewed by politicans and some religious groups become our definition in the debate and therefore we are accountable for the evils which have been done to them.

But this is neautrilzed by his moments of absolute madness and blinder which has its roots in his attitude and ignorance.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

I won't even bother to go line by line to point out your lies or ignorance (I'm not sure which because your screen name is new to me) but I need, as a proud upstate girl, to point out one RIDICULOUS statement.

«Apart from deep rooted ignorance, illiteracy and permissible idiocy by the well lettered on social media, the two major high risk phenomena he should be concerned about are a very uninspiring Electoral Commission with a terrible communication strategy and the second of course is skyrocketing unemployement which I must admit he can't do much about.»

I have argued that the Party had made strategic errors through tokenism and ignorance; that it doesn't matter if we think we're not racist but ethnic minority voters do, and that it's time to end the Conservative war on multiculturalism (which, by the way, is supported by 71 per cent of Tory voters).

- the sort of society, to quote the Liberal Democrat Constitution, «in which no - one is enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity»

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a brilliant directed film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who manipulates the camera to give the illusion that the film is one continuous long take (which can get dizzying at times) giving a film that is resonate to a modern day audience as it examins these fictitious characters and their commentary on what it means to stay relevant.

The long takes and comparisons to the stage may sound similar to Iñárritu's «Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» which took home the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director last year — and it's by little coincidence.

The final ignorance - is - bliss resolution, in which Park's protagonist frees himself from unbearable knowledge by submitting to hypnosis, would make Charlie Kaufman proud.

For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

And if they're in blissful ignorance and unaware that their underlings in legal have failed them (which would mean they're not doing their job and should be fired by the board)... fixing it is easy — see that employee sacked and charged.

The number of strays wandering the streets and the ignorance with which many animals were treated dismayed her and, little by little, Tammy began to try and make a difference.

In regards to production I find them good enough, I was wondering how they'll go in terms of artstyle since I may pledge ignorance but I don't see many R - rated animation from the west aside from satire comedy, and the DC animated films, which by the way most do seem to have anime influences also.

FINALLY CONQUER that embarrassing IGNORANCE of modern art history by understanding which artistic movement was «the last stand of the isolated artistic self in a climate of conformity and increasing objectification created by techniques of mass control.»

(From NASA) Following through by taking a look, a brief item on how solar flares are not going to destroy us, which educated my ignorance.

Ocean acidification comes from GHGs, but not eutrophication which is driven primarily by chemical and soil runoff which comes from ignorance of natural systems design and the dysfunctional food system.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

«One way in which one would attempt to shift the burden of proof is by committing a logical fallacy known as the argument from ignorance.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home upon which God has blessed us to live so well.