Sentences with phrase «in ignorance of the facts»

It was a bold decision, and one that Chaplin considered an artistic statement, but knowing now as we do the atrocities visited upon the Jews it's difficult to appreciate much of the humour because it appears to gloss over reality when, in fact, it was written in ignorance of the facts.

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I am still trying to find out why these schools of thought have to be mutually exclusive — neither side has in fact heard from God, and it is preposterous to believe any God would demand his subjects remain in ignorance.

In fact, a lack of regard for the poor is based on an ignorance of the Bible, and that is far more a concern than any so - called secular threat.

We can debate interpretation of facts, but your faith in my intellectual ignorance is nearly as strong as my faith in God.

Again you're changing numbers to fit your delusional mind... the actual number of Muslims is listed below (over 2 billion)... to say it includes the extremists who in your OPINION are not true Muslims is to use the No True Scotsman fallacy - so you have once again shown ignorance and a lack of care for facts... time for you to grow up and accept facts.

@chance — I take this as your concession that your position is, in fact, based in «hiding in ignorance» and the non sequitur of «God did it.»

the problem with todays interactors is ignorance of the facts of science and history, how can you repeat the big bang when the process takes billions of years, and science does not need countless repeatation or the people in Nobel Awards commitee are idots fir awrding the Nobel prize last year to Higgs for the Cern Switzerland disvovery

When in fact, ignorance... no wait stupidity (ignorance is not knowing doing wrong; stupidity is knowingly doing something) oozes from thier mouth like the slobber from the mouth of a St. Bernard!

Every other form of revelation would be a deception in the eyes of love; for either the learner would first have to be changed, and the fact concealed from him that this was necessary (but love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself); or there would be permitted to prevail a frivolous ignorance of the fact that the entire relationship was a delusion.

Elmer John Thiessen, who teaches philosophy at a public university in Canada, deals with each of the accusations and shows how they all rest upon either an ignorance of the facts or a misunderstanding of the issues, and often upon both.

The problem I have with this obvious at a propaganda campaign lifting up a religeous secotr of our (US) society will danerously feed people's ignorance in this country, to the fact that the WORLD does not see US Muslims as «good» Muslims and that a majority of Muslims WORLDWIDE act or behave in this manner.

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

Why the abortion issue won't go away: One side (pro-choice) argues from fact, reason, and an understanding of the natural world; and the other (pro-life) argues from ignorance and blind belief in a fairy tale.

Do not say there is not a right and wrong in this debate; there's a right, and an ignorance of the right, whether that ignorance is because of lack of education in biology / chemistry / theoretical physics or a choice to ignore facts so that a person can comfortably keep their faith intact or both.

I'm sure the majority of us would be just a dimwitted as they were before understanding the fact of evolution, before Galileo's heliocentrism, as dimwitted as creationists are who exist in the vaccuum of their self - imposed ignorance.

Religion promotes ignorance in the guise of innocence, it presents fables as facts.

It may be in fact destructive of either ignorance or knowledge; the one sure aspect of it is that people are different after they have it than they were before, but to assume that in all cultures this difference is desirable is again a probably erroneous inference.32.

In fact, in the apocalypse in Mark 13, he both declares the imminence of the consummation and his own ignorance of its exact timIn fact, in the apocalypse in Mark 13, he both declares the imminence of the consummation and his own ignorance of its exact timin the apocalypse in Mark 13, he both declares the imminence of the consummation and his own ignorance of its exact timin Mark 13, he both declares the imminence of the consummation and his own ignorance of its exact time.

The fact that we lived in ignorance for millenia and allowed religion to get a position of power in society should not mean that we persist with that which was born of ignorance.

Your interpretation is common, but I hope that as Christians we can move past this simple interpretation and embrace the deeper fact that all of us, Christian or no, always act in a context of great ignorance.

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

In fact, you're speaking from a base of complete ignorance just to display a bunch of prejudices.

But the idea, in LDS doctrine, that Jesus came to the Americas or that native americans are Israelites that traveled to the Americas just wreaks of blind ignorance of facts and implicit stupidity.

Her education or lack thereof, the additional number of children, where she lives, etc. have absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that the judge was so obviously wrong, in appropriate, disrespectful and did I say WRONG, spewing the same ignorance as the judge.

Nor is my own, if in fact I'm speaking out of my ignorance of the delight foreskin can deliver.

Statement is baffling and is in fact the very thing that guys like cap and others are fighting against the truth is Colin didn't orignaly kneel during the anthem he sat on his bench he was then approached by vets who asked why he was sitting and asked him to do something else because sitting was disprectful it was those army vets who told cap to kneel because it shows your fighting against something and not just sitting to sit they told him it would be a better look and it's funny how people turn around and say he is disrespecting the very people who told him what to do and how to do it to get his message across this is the ignorance of America and everything cap fights against you judge a man by the color of his skin and his upbringing and not the content of his character you don't know anything about cap yet you pull this entire story out your ass go sit down clown

Disclaimer, since the United States continues to plead ignorance to the fact that gambling is happening everywhere around them rather than regulating it, all bets will be in the form of bagel currency.

The last thing I'll comment with to end my rant about your so - called ignorance is that while most births are perfectly safe and the child arrives completely alert and healthy (regardless of hospital or homebirth) there is and always will be an element of life and death mixed into the equation — not all hospital births end in a live child, in fact the percentages are about equal in both hospital births and home births were natural vaginal births occur..

I think there are flaws in both sides of the system, I am just saddened when I see articles like this filled with fear mongering and ignorance instead of fact.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Even its distinguishing hallmark — the lack of information (the veil of ignorance)-- in fact highlights the correspondence between the two approaches.

I attribute these failings to ignorance and immaturity in politicians and the electorate that could be traced back to amoral, fact - based education and the idealisation of human nature by the Enlightenment.

Unintended consequences are a fact of life, but to make policy in wilful ignorance of them is not only disheartening but is nothing short of dangerous.

Obviously, it is only a stranger who is trying so hard and quite unsuccessfully to convince people that he is also from KEEA who can expose himself about his ignorance; to the extent of publicly threatening to expose Dr Nduom about a so - called change of name from Yorke to Nduom; when in actual fact, there has not been any change of name.

The monumental failure of the earth nut (peanut) project in Tanganyika — a megalomaniac pipe - dream advanced in ignorance of the plainest facts about African soils — is well known.

In fact, it is more a symptom of the fact that your advisers simply lack much information about the other rewarding career paths that are out there for science Ph.D. s. Ignorance is a much easier problem to deal with than antipathy.

In fact, Incorporations is beautiful for its wishful ignorance of what really happens on the street when modernity is, so to say, going down.

Poll after poll, and even late night TV talk shows, seem to revel in Americans» ignorance of basic scientific facts, including the fundamentals of physics and biology.

Those pollsters who do seek a more thorough understanding of public attitudes find a marked lack of knowledge of the basic facts and even an acknowledgment of that ignorance — resulting in uncertain and highly malleable opinions.

In fact, professed familiarity with stem cell research in the prior question turned out to be a leading indicator of actual ignorance with respect to this question of therapeutic useIn fact, professed familiarity with stem cell research in the prior question turned out to be a leading indicator of actual ignorance with respect to this question of therapeutic usein the prior question turned out to be a leading indicator of actual ignorance with respect to this question of therapeutic uses.

Liman and his screenwriter, Gary Spinelli (Chaos Walking, Stash House), apparently play fast and loose with the facts of Seal's life («dramatic license» in case you're wondering), but hew relatively close to the general contours and parameters of that same life, following Seal as he settles in Mena, Arkansas at the behest of his careerist handler, expands his drug - smuggling business with Schafer's willful ignorance as an ally, and turns a massive property (also bestowed by a generous federal government) into a training ground for the Contra rebels who fought against the Communist - allied Sandinista regime in Nicaragua in the «80s.

It's Double Jeopardy's most convincing moment, relying as it does on the ignorance of a child — so persuasive, in fact, that you may wonder at film's end if it had been imported from another screenplay altogether.

Most of these institutions are counting on your ignorance of the facts in order to increase profits.

Their sale of shares to you at a seeming bargain price may be the result of ignorance, emotion or various institutional constraints, or it may be that the apparent bargain is in fact flawed, that it is actually fairly priced or even overvalued and that sellers know more than you do.

Because most of the time, like home bias, bottom - up stock picking is just another excuse for laziness (or ignorance)-- in fact, they regularly go hand - in - hand.

The fact is that this is a human caused problem and it's sad just like the overabundance of cats and dogs in this country which cause 10 million of them to be killed each year in shelters while people still breed more (ignorance).

If someone holds extreme or bizarre or clearly baseless opinions, or receives funding directly or indirectly from corporations with billions of dollars in profit riding on public confusion about, or ignorance of, the scientific facts, or «chooses to spend his time» with propagandists and ideologues known to be dishonest, those are all entirely legitimate — and indeed compelling — reasons to be, shall we say, «skeptical» of his scientific claims.

The fact that people still use the term «equilibrium», which is a carefully defined thermodynamic state, when what they mean is a cyclical steady state shows a degree of ignorance typically only found in journalist majors.

The built - in features of our brains, and the life experiences we accumulate, do in fact fill our heads with immense knowledge; what they do not confer is insight into the dimensions of our ignorance.

However, it must be recognised that in fact there can be no prior that genuinely represents a state of complete ignorance (Bernardo and Smith, 1994, Section 5.4), and indeed the impossibility of representing true ignorance within the Bayesian paradigm is perhaps one of the most severe criticisms that is commonly levelled at it.