Readers will already be familiar with the work of Phillip Johnson, the hard - hitting critic
of blind allegiance to Darwinian orthodoxy.
This House of Cards created by the thin - skinned narcissist and our absentee landlord is going to come crashing down over the next 12 months and anyone who doesn't put the success of the club ahead
of blind allegiances will need to check themselves so that we can move forward once the dust has settled... this club has been on auto - pilot for far too long and the same old, same old just won't cut it in the new EPL where many of the best managers, players and deepest pockets in the world now reside... just think to yourself what has transpired in the last 7 years alone: Leicester City won the EPL, Chelsea and ManCity have changed several managers and still won the League on multiple occasions, ManU lost Fergie yet we still didn't take advantage, Liverpool has emerged from their slumber and the Spurs are presently the better team in North London... if you find this acceptable, I feel for you and this future of this club... hope you all enjoy fighting with Everton and West Ham for the final Europa spot every year (aka the new Wenger Cup)
Not exact matches
Phil: Whether I agreed with you or not aside, I was ready to accept your sincerity and lack
of denial or
blind allegiance, except for this:
The devil has
blinded the leaders
of the churches
of today when they serve carved images
of the flag
of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness
of heaven above or in the likeness
of the earth below... When you pledge your
allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your
allegiance to the carved images
of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness
of heaven above and in the likeness
of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars
of heaven and the eagle
of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf
of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your
allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images
of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark
of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images
of the flag, unless the devil has
blinded the minds
of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden
of Eden.
Wherever there are signs
of widespread social discontent and / or the fear
of war, we have the conditions in which people are ready to give their
blind allegiance to a charismatic, authoritarian leader in the belief that he or she will be able to restore a more ordered and secure environment and save them from a much worse fate.
Whether we like it or not it would be
blind not to admit that for most people in the modern world religion is first
of all an identity, a label, a badge
of allegiance of a group.
I think that kind
of perspective, willfully separating that «force» from the flawed characteristics and limitations
of man, is more «faithful» than
blind allegiance to ideologies KNOWN to have been manipulated by man.
We now see that the leap
of faith is not just one leap; it is a leap repeatedly made, and a leap that becomes more difficult to take the more it is taken, reaching its pinnacle in
blind allegiance and active denial and rejection
of any other possibilities.
Many
of us Arsenal fans stayed loyal for a decade living off past glories endless promises, excuses and
blind allegiance.
In fact, it is this
blind allegiance to the «Carb Paradigm» that has driven so many
of us to experience the vast array
of metabolic problems that threaten to overwhelm our health care system.
Not surprisingly, this film stirred up a great deal
of controversy even before it aired; some Jewish leaders and prominent Holocaust survivors worried that Hitler might come off as being sympathetic (a concern that may have dictated altering the film's title, which was to have been Hitler: The Early Years); and one
of the film's producers was summarily dismissed after issuing a public statement which seemed to compare Germany's
blind, unthinking
allegiance to Hitler to America's rallying behind George W. Bush during the Iraq crisis.
Daniel Day - Lewis's phone may look outdated, but his continued use
of the relic suggests there may be something the rest
of us are missing in our
blind allegiance to tech trends.
Some
of the points Konrath made in #FutureChat included the fact that he has no
blind allegiance to Amazon, despite his support
of it: «Indie authors often publicly disagree with Amazon.
And nowhere is this overreach more evident than the
blind allegiance to Al Gore's agenda
of environmental extremism.