This is your choice, think as you wish, but no matter how well written turning to insults instead of conversation is the
sign of the small minded.
I know this sounds like a contradiction, but as Thomas Edison said, «Contradictions are the
bain of small minds.»
Once you understand this you will start to feel like a part of the larger community of humans
instead of the small minded narrow world of Christianity.
Christian history is dotted with the pock holes of the disastrous
results of small minds who elevated their partial truths to the level of the ultimate, so that they could feel secure and be convinced that they were right.
These qualities and conditions, which constitute the materials and contexts with which and in which the exemplifications of relational power must fulfill their ambiguous destinies, run the gamut from triumphant breakthroughs to crippling regressions, from life - restoring laughter to life - denying despair, from the beauty of the gracious heart to the debasing
cruelty of the small mind and smaller soul.
The herd mentality - being either ascribed to or implied and accused of - is ever one of the downfalls of rational thought and the hiding
place of small minds and big manipulations.
Hamilton continually challenges other Christians t come to grips with their experience of a godless world, world in which God is either absent altogether or present ii the worst way: in the selfish impulses and evil
acts of small minds, so that God comes to represent in fanaticism and hatred death itself.
«Knowledge - abstinence philosophies» is the perfect description of the inane
attempts of small minded people to drive public policy.
«Those islands near Australia where all the sheep farms are»... Yep, I'm probably one
of those small minded Americans, but that pretty much sums up my prior knowledge of this country.
Speaking of which, have you noticed how most utopian future scenarios (at least, the ones that are thought - out to some degree) posit some final, awful event (such as WWIII in the Star Trek future) that finally, mercifully causes humans to snap
out of their small minded selfishness and come together universally to ascent to a more mature society (one might say slightly (only slightly, but that makes a lot of difference!)
Prominent barristers like Edward Greenspan and David Roebuck criticized the law society, with even long - time bencher Clayton Ruby calling concerns about incivility «the
obsession of small minds.»
Consistency may be the
hobgoblin of small minds; yet the contrast between allowing taxpayer support of private schools, which are neither accountable nor transparent to the public, and imposing the most stringent reporting and accountability standards on all public schools should alarm the fair - minded.
Lauren, I'm not being rude, but you are
of small mind.