Sentences with phrase «hypocrisy of using»

How can a nation of people miss the outright hypocrisy of using a belief system ostensibly predicated on compassion, charity and humility to argue in favour of genocide?

As I mention above, the issue needs to be raised to believers and non-believers alike: How can a nation of people miss the outright hypocrisy of using a belief system ostensibly predicated on compassion, charity and humility to argue in favour of genocide?

Not exact matches

He gets lambasted for supposed hypocrisy because he flies to places on planes — which use a lot of fossil fuel — to criticize the fossil fuel industry.

One of the most recognized features of the church by those inside but especially those outside is its propensity for hypocrisy and duplicity and its use of power to protect these.

In fact, Lincoln had difficulty with the aristocratic Jefferson on many accounts, and in private he not only scorned Jefferson's views of the ideal yeoman farmer but also condemned Jefferson's hypocrisy regarding slaves, a hypocrisy that implied Jefferson's use of the word equality in the Declaration need not be taken literally as applying to all men.

Religion is, by and large, built on a profound fear of death... and the church has used that fear to perpetuate a system that is filled with hypocrisy, ritual, judgment, and conflict.

But then I do nt think science means anything to any of the people discussing this even though they are using science to discuss in the form of television, computers and internet what irony or is it hypocrisy?

The revolutionaries who claim for themselves the right to use violence but deny it to the state, who demand that the state act correctly, in the light of love, justice, and the common weal, are guilty of hypocrisy (such as Mr. Debray exhibited during his trial).

One of those things in common is that the youth reject hypocrisy of religious leaders or political leaders that use religion to achieve their ambitions or goals.

People need to weigh their passionate feelings with careful thought before they chip away at the inviolability of individual conscience, and those who believe it can be legislated against should beware of hypocrisy; they are often the same people who argue that when it comes to abortion, a woman's own mind — her individual conscience and reason — outweighs what used to be called «conventional morality.»

I think mary jane needs to be legalized not necessarily because of the hypocrisy and that we should have the «freedom» as much as the windfall of cash from growing it, selling it and taxing it, the medicinal properties it can be used for, the huge amount of space available in prisons that would open up and house criminals doing really bad things instead beng caught with a pound of a specific plant.

Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved» Now religion is USING the discoveries of science to CLAIM IT IS EVIDENCE to support their unevidenced claims... talk about fraud and hypocrisy.

Wow, way to use your own hypocrisy to point out the hypocrisy of others.

I sense some serious hypocrisy with the use of the bible concerning human rights — selective choosing we'll call it.

The HYPOCRISY here is that people use the Bible as an EXCUSE when they don't actually believe all of what it says about marriage.

If that's the case, it's a bit hypocritical of him to use a computer and modern medical treatments, but hypocrisy doesn't seem to stop any christians from doing and saying what they want.

Pointing out the hypocrisy of of using the fruits of science to attack science isn't demonizing.

It's used to rationalize religious violence, abuse, corruption, ignorance, bigotry, racism, injustice, inequality, sexism, hypocrisy and a litany of other evils — all under the guise of «God told me to do this» or «The Bible says this.»

I'm not even going to mention the large percentage of American Catholics who violate this edict by using contraception on a regular basis... or the hypocrisy of Catholic hierarchy who went to great lengths to cover - up some very un-Godly behavior by a scary number of its priests

No doubt, some of the greedy people fail to see their own hypocrisy when they use the Bible to pick on others, especially gay people.

Wigg - Stevenson often uses the phrase «nuclear apartheid» to describe how the injustice and hypocrisy of this two - tier system is what drives proliferation.

«Turn the other cheek», «Love your neighbor as yourself»... Nuggets of wisdom for a people used to the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

I think that anyone with common sense will see that this statement, coupled with the current social landscape proves the hypocrisy of those who use the bible to condemn their fellow man: «A literal reading of the Bible was used to justify all sorts of hatred: slavery, the subjugation of women and anti-Semitism, scholars and pastors say.»

But she doesn't use it as an argument against water birth; she uses it as a demonstration of the hypocrisy of the «natural is best» and «women are designed to give birth» brigade.

From where I'm standing it is an utmost hypocrisy to suggest that we need to just talk about it and employ and use less objective standards such as «in my opinion this adult bed mattress of mine is a safe sleep surface for infants» instead of regulated industry product specifications

Labour was accused of hypocrisy today, after it organised a summit on zero hours contracts despite claims some of its local councils still use them.

Clinton called the private email use by White House staffers the «height of hypocrisy» during an interview last week with SiriusXM.

But the rank hypocrisy and lack of empathy demonstrated by those who use «NIMBY» to casually dismiss those whose lives are going to be thoroughly rogered by such proposals is, to my mind, far worse than the perceived obstructionism of the unfortunates who are watching their retirement plans go up in a puff of train steam.

We have very right to use the sex - related hypocrisy of non-progressives as a cudgel to beat them over the head with.

The travellers» attitude to the law smacks of hypocrisy: on the one hand, they are using the court to delay matters and to add to costs; on the other, they claim they will resist the site clearance — which is unlawful.

It would be so tempting to use one of John Major's more memorable soundbites from PMQs when he managed to rattle Tony Blair with a comment about looking to be «tough on hypocrisy, tough on the causes of hypocrisy», especially given that the argument at the time was all about Harriet Harman sending her son to a selective school.

In stage plays like «Fan» and «The Importance of Being Earnest,» Wilde used wickedly sharp dialogue and glittering farce as scalpels, laying open the hypocrisies of an Edwardian upper - class audience that only felt the sting on the hansom - cab ride home.

When Vatican emissaries accuse her of witchcraft, she lashes back, using the trial as a feminist forum to expose the hypocrisies of the period.

As he uses his zapper to repeat the empty phrase relentlessly, we shiver in recognition at the sickening sameness and hollow hypocrisy of contemporary politics.

While railing against government hypocrisy, religious ignorance, and media - reinforced herd mentality, Bill found transcendence through substance use, which nearly destroyed him (when asked why he ultimately quit drugs, he'd respond that «once you've been taken aboard a UFO, it's kind of hard to top that»).

Using Northup's book of his actual accounts, John Ridley's (Red Tails) script plainly depicts the hypocrisy of the plantation owners spouting scripture one moment and then viciously beating or raping their slaves the next.

But for Toller, the faith of those early founders, who once used their chapel to shelter slaves fleeing north along the Underground Railroad, stands in stark contrast to the slick, corporatized hypocrisy of the modern American church — an institution that has betrayed its believers, its mission and, above all, the Earth over which God decreed that man should have dominion.

However, for those familiar with the great painter's works, as well as the prevailing spirit of the Era of Enlightenment and the style of the other great artists of various mediums who used their craft to comment on the blights of the world around them, Goya's Ghosts speaks on a level that transcends just the story of two men looking after the welfare of a young, unfortunate woman caught up in the hysteria of power that marked the end of the Spanish Inquisition's stranglehold of power, as well as the outrageous hypocrisy in their manner of governance.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

The author is to be congratulated for pointing out the hypocrisy in the use of the term.

Using television advertisements, tabloid magazines and current affairs as her sources, Iveković juxtaposed these with images of her own life, addressing the discrepancy between public and private discourses, and pointing to the hypocrisy of the public declarations of gender equality in socialist Yugoslavia.

Later in the century, it was adapted as a battle hymn by suffragettes and abolitionists, who used the song's title and opening line — «My country ’ t is of thee, / sweet land of liberty» — as an ironic jab at the nation's hypocrisies.

In her book Dark Matters, Simone Browne explains how the placement of Thomas» Branded Head (2004) in light boxes next to real corporate institutions, such as J.P. Morgan, called attention to the fact that these banks put out insurance policies on slaves.4 Though Thomas certainly uses these corporate aesthetics, they are meant to draw attention to the bodies that have been appropriated by the florescent glare, yet also return agency to the subject — calling attention to the hypocrisy evident in the system of production.

This exhibition will include ten works spanning four decades that use both humor and horror to expose the hypocrisies and the absurdities of American culture.

DiCaprio's environmental activism has met with accusations of hypocrisy in the past; in April, hacked internal Sony emails published by WikiLeaks revealed the actor used a private jet six times over a six - week period in 2014.

The hypocrisy that the developed nations used fossil fuels to improve the length and quality of life and are now denying that opportunity to other nations is egregious.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)

And I reject your use of the Biblical caution against hypocrisy.

The focus is on the vegetarian fast food chain Otarian, which is predictably assaulted it for committing a number of hypocrisies: Its owners don't live in a green home, they still use paper packaging, Et cetera.

The brutality of elements within the British army; the deployment of five interrogation techniques banned by Edward Heath in 1972 after embarrassing exposure of their use in Northern Ireland; the hypocrisy of a policy which was promoted as protecting people in Southern Iraq were all exposed.