Religion - Giving
dumb people power every day.
Not exact matches
The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer,
dumb and
dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling
people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost
power.»
Jesus returns to heal the
person who had been made blind and
dumb by a devil and to show how ridiculous was the contention of the Pharisees that he performed this miracle through the
power of the devil.
The book, «Silence of God» by Sir Robert Anderson sums it thusly: «If Christ was indeed divine, no
person of ordinary intelligence will question that he had
power to open the eyes of the blind, the ears of the deaf, the lips of the
dumb.
The fact that
people pick
dumb names for their kids pales in comparison to the fact that religious nutjobs occupy positions of
power in our «blind» legal system.
In the end, a few religious
people profit, receiving a great deal of money and
power, and everyone else is a
dumb schmuck.
In his opinion there are three styles of cookbooks: that of the TV chef who wants to capitalize on their star
power; the
dumbed down (my words, not Chris») book where every detail is explained including idle time; and professional cookbooks which only
persons in the cooking arena understand.
Workers aren't
dumb & can easily do their jobs — better evven — w / o
people harassing them on
power trips.
On the other end is Ralph Fiennes, who's terrifyingly convincing as a Nazi officer as
dumb as he is evil, abusing his
power and killing
people for no reason.
To illustrate the
power of investing early, let's look at a simple example that compares three different
people: Smart Stan,
Dumb Derek, and Idiot Isiah.