Graphs can be handy but they are naturally rigged for
facile belief.
In a similar manner, Ellul has shown earlier that we have preferred the wrong sort of revolution (Autopsy of Revolution, Changer de révolution), given ourselves to the wrong sort of prayer (Prayer and Modern Man), allowed the idolatrous city to dominate our affections (The Meaning of the City), and substituted
facile belief for vital faith (Living Faith).
Not exact matches
These trends had been exacerbated since the 1990s by the fragmentation of media (Internet, talk radio), which promoted counter-scientific
beliefs such as fear of vaccines among even educated people, by providing
facile elaborations of false arguments and a ceaseless repetition of allegations.
It is
facile, and it demeans the ethics of people he has never met — on the basis of them having different ideology of political
beliefs than he.