Sentences with phrase «illiterate men»

After cutting her hair, Parvana dresses as a boy and sets up as a sidewalk scribe: reading and writing for illiterate men.

Professor Espada takes pride in teaching nearly illiterate men to read, in counseling younger inmates, and in helping others work through their cases in the library.

By alleging illiteracy for him, traditional Muslims were trying to make the claim even «more miraculous,» for a book of such literary quality was sent down through an illiterate man.»

Jackman is both sympathetic and compelling as the father driven beyond all reason to find his daughter; Dano shines as the illiterate man - child who may know more than we think, while Gyllenhaal gives his best performance since «Zodiac.»

Not exact matches

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple, dirty (a new book), sometimes sick (the same book) preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma - mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

So why do we really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, preacher man would like or dislike, bless or curse, do or not do?

Spirit moves through all, including an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations.

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a mamzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

So why do we really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, insane, preacher man would do or say?

We need to know about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, which was also a federally run and endowed study, where African American men — mostly illiterate and impoverished — were experimented upon like laboratory animals for 40 years.

In such case it seems that our illiterates were more literates than today's modern men literates?!

The Bible was written by many men all with revelation from God not one illiterate prophet.

None of us were, like the man whose guilt or innocence we were to pronounce, illiterate, poor and black.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma - mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

Some who recognize that it is not enough to have a Bible sitting on your shelf — or several Bible's — believe that the difference between the wise and foolish man is that the wise man has Bible knowledge, whereas the foolish man is basically ignorant and illiterate of the Bible.

Jesus was a simple, illiterate, 1st century, preacher / magic man.

So why do they really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, preacher man would do or say?

So why do we really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, a-mouldering in the ground, preacher man would do or say?

So why do we really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, preacher / magic man would do or say?

Though many were either illiterate or not very religious, many others could write and were indeed devout» men such as Colonel Patrick Guiney of Massachusetts, who lost his eye and his health at Chancellorville and wrote to his wife, «God rules in Peace and War» in the circumstances and the catastrophe.»

Wrong on all accounts as there is no god and your Jesus was nothing more than a heavy embellished, illiterate, preacher MAN.

@REALITY «So why do we really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, preacher man would do or say?»

Obviously, many are still caught up in the myths surrounding said illiterate preacher, man of magic.

Why would we think that the mostly non-Jewish Corinthian men, whom were generally illiterate and uneducated, were experts in the Bible or knew how to act any better than the women in a formal teaching environment?

Jesus was actually only an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hal - lucinations and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a mam - zer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

Did this simple preacher man, an illiterate rabbi at best, establish a church?

living in crude huts, illiterate, no medicine, no industry, suppressing any and all science that contradic «ts what their moldy «holy» book says and living in total fear of what men of «god» tell us what we can or can not do with eternal suffering hanging over our heads.

So why do we really care what a first century CE, illiterate, long - dead, preacher / magic man or pope would do or say?

«Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations».

But here was Joan, who was just a poor country girl, illiterate, defying the social norm by dressing up as a man and affirming that she had received orders from «her voices» to fight against the English.

«The survey was conducted in December 2012 by local fieldworkers, men and women, face to face, to capture illiterate respondents of both genders.

My problem is that this man is legally illiterate,» said Khan.

Yet the ogogoro boat man and his illiterate wife are messing all over the place insulting their betters.

There are authors who claim the practice began during the colonial period as an early «mens» / «ladies» designation for an illiterate populace (the sun and moon being popular symbols for the sexes during those times).

Other dramatic actress nominees were Emily Blunt as Britain's monarch in her early reign in «The Young Victoria,» Helen Mirren as the imperious wife of Leo Tolstoy in «The Last Station,» Carey Mulligan as a 1960s British teen in an affair with an older man in «An Education» and Gabourey Sidibe as an illiterate, abused teen turning her life around in «Precious.»

When a wandering Phiona stumbles across Robert's Sports Ministry Outreach program, their fates are instantly, interminably intertwined; this struggling family man will coach up this young, illiterate girl into one of the continent's premier female chess players.

One of two big surprises is that this gentle, humanistic tale of an illiterate young man making his own way in southern India isn't the work of a native South Asian filmmaker, but an American.

In the 1970 book Future Shock, author Alvin Toffler quotes psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy's observation that «Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn».

Twenty - eight percent of fourth - graders in suburban districts are functionally illiterate, as are one in every five 12th - grade young white men from college - educated households.

Fifty - three percent of the Dominion State's young black men in fourth grade were functionally illiterate in 2011, a mere one point decline from nine years ago; this trails the eight percentage point decline nationwide, and the even more dramatic 13 - and 16 point declines in functional illiteracy among young black male fourth - graders in respectively, Florida and Alabama.

The man who came here illiterate and studied his way up to pass a written citizenship test.

The College demystifies solar technology and decentralizes its application by placing the fabrication, installation, usage, repair and maintenance of sophisticated solar lighting units in the hands of rural, illiterate and semi-literate men and women.

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school is helping rural communities become self - sufficient by teaching rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers.

And even historically illiterate people will recognize that your appropriation of the integrity and honor of military men who risked their lives serving their countries to use as justification for you to spew your defamation is cowardly and despicable.

The survey noted that those skeptical of man's influence on global warming aren't science illiterate, a favorite talking point of the far left.

More than two - thirds of American men and women are considered financially illiterate, lacking the most basic, rudimentary knowledge of simple financial concepts like savings, budgeting, credit or debt.