Sentences with phrase «from uncritical acceptance»

The attitudes of people of religion towards the media are extremely varied from uncritical acceptance to total rejection of media's presence in the life of society.

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Whereas in traditional societies this openness often amounted to somewhat uncritical acceptance of the dominant cultural patterns, today it can also mean incorporation of ranges of concern and action from the prophetic traditions of Israel.

In their profoundly shallow and reductive view of world history — such as their complete and uncritical acceptance of the asinine assertions of pseudohistorian D.M. Murdock, also known as Acharya S. — Zeitgeisters presume that everything they see as bad in the world, principally money and religion, was designed by a single person or group of people and then implemented whole and complete, the way automobiles go from the drawing board to the factory floor in Detroit.

My problem with the category of «story» is that it invites uncritical acceptance from many who see it as a new way of doing theology.

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

Reconstructing Memories The uncritical acceptance of eyewitness accounts may stem from a popular misconception of how memory works.

I am not blind to how unattractive Ethel's uncritical acceptance of racism was, to the extent that I think she buried in denial how painful it was to be separated from her only friend, and then see that friend be raped by her father.