Sentences with phrase «of taking this all at face value»

Last time I proffered the idea that pain is a problem for the atheist because he has to figure out what to do about said pain - and some of you took that at face value, but I think some of you are rightfully scratching your heads.

But instead of taking that at face value — despite the fact that Amazon has built itself into one of the most customer - centric entities in the retail space — those who hate the empire that it has become are determined that there is an ulterior motive, that the retailer is just throwing its weight around and outlining terms that will be adhered to at all costs.

One thing that I've for sure learned about Animal Welfare is that unsubstantiated claims and myths are common and that challenging these claims instead of taking them at face value is a good thing.

It would be interesting to see a full life cycle analysis instead of taking this all at face value.

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I was able to balance what I knew of their history, their system and the support they provide to their franchisees to ensure the system worked, instead of taking the franchise's words at face value.

«We felt that the recent smoothing in trade war discussions felt too quick and too easy to take at face value,» Neil Campling, co-head of global thematic group at Mirabaud Securities, said in a research note Thursday.

And so therefore, I'm taking it at face value that the authority is there to allow the minting of a trillion - dollar coin, and that shouldn't be allowed.»

Despite vouching for the validity of the organization, not even Yiannopoulos's word was taken at face value.

The question is whether to take official comments at face value,» said managing partner of Cerno Capital, James Spence.

Very few stocks in the S&P are priced to deliver long - term returns of 10 % annually, and even this view assumes that recent earnings can be taken at face value.

Given the off - the - cliff behavior of the economy in late September and October, the November and December «improvements» in the ISM surveys are difficult to take at face value, especially because many of these readings remain below 50, indicating continued overall deterioration in conditions.

Gold moved higher on volume that was the lowest since the beginning of the year and this means that Friday's rally shouldn't be taken at its face value, but instead...

In effect, it seems that Justice Gascon was prepared to take at face value Châteauguay's representations that it was enacting the reserve (at para 109) «to ensure the harmonious development of the territory of Châteauguay, to allay its residents» concerns and to protect their health and well?being...».

You on the other hand take the hard line of absolutely not accepting anything at face value and draw a conclusion immediately.

It's equally foolish to accept it at face value and underestimate the great achievements of liberty and law that we as Americans rightly take pride in and must work to protect.

To all of you who keep claiming this was about «not wanting to lose to a girl»: Why can't we simply take what this kid said at face value?

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

But then when something doesn't work, you go out of your way to not take it at face value and make «justifications» (aka excuses) for it.

There's a lot of gross misinformation, and outright propaganda put out there by creationists aimed at just reassuring the opponents, who they count on to take what they say on face value.

For Hume advanced a philosophy that, if taken at face value, would not only undermine the claims to truth of religion but those of morality and of science also.

You nailed it - especially about the fact that her observations highlight the superfluos nature of religion and the fact that she just can't take the info at face value but still needs to put a Christian spin on it.

The long and short is that without being able to provide a control or some level of statistical repeat - ability — I can not take your anonymous testimony at face value.

The point I was making about liberals is that many of you understand that the bible can not be taken at face - value, but do so when it is convenient for you.

I have done the research and the study and I'm convinced of the truth of Jesus's words and you should take them at face value.

There are many methods of communication found throughout the New Testament that screw us up if we take the text at face value.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

The fact that you insist on others not taking your own words at face value says a great deal about your preferred modus operandi — none of it favorable.

[5] Virtually all scholars involved with historical Jesus research believe his existence can be established using docu mentary and other evidence, although most hold that much of the material about him in the New Testament should not be taken at face value

[5] Virtually all scholars involved with historical Jesus research believe his existence can be established using documentary and other evidence, although most hold that much of the material about him in the New Testament should not be taken at face value

The systematic claims of a philosophical argument must be taken at face value and judged on the basis of rational examination.

One of the strangest things about the Biblicist mentality is its evident refusal to take the Bible at face value.

Taking at face value the unproven preached out by people who sell the word of God as their day job.

Instead of taking what they say at face value... search out the Scriptures yourself and prove to be a workman rightly dividing the word (2nd Tim.

By taking that elemental assurance at its face value, he was able to accept a primary rule of modern philosophy — that the evidence for an external world can be found only within occasions of experience — without being drawn into solipsism.

But taken at face value, they are alienating insofar as they betray us into placing our own possibilities outside of us as attributes of God and not of humanity, viewing ourselves as unworthy objects of a projected image of our own essential nature.

An «explanation» of religion need not be ruled out just because it does not take religion at face value or keep to the first - order utterances of the believer.

And so we should be wary not to take the conclusions of the ADL survey at face value.

What I mean is that, if you take 1 Timothy 2:12 in it's most plain sense, at face value, then women are not allowed to teach period; somehow you have inferred that men can learn from women when done «PRIVATELY» but not «IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH.»

You are very weak - minded to really take at face value a 2000 year old book filled with 3000 year old stories, when there isn't one iota of proof that ANY «god» at all was behind those writings.

He takes Russia's feeling of insecurity, and its fears of the loss of historic trophies such as the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea, at face value.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

Twenty years removed from this pre-pubescent memory, I am savvy enough now to realize that plenty of people do not take the Bible's historical claims at face value.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

Although Whitehead did not deal with the question of regional inclusion, some of his cosmological statements, taken at face value, seem to imply it.

There are tons of words within James 1 and 2 which evidence that James is speaking to folks as if to take their faith at face value and is simply urging them to get to work.

Highland culture takes at face value the pervasive sense of smallness that humans feel in the world.

He isn't questioning the faith or salvation of his audience because of the absence of works; rather he is questioning the absence of works «given'their faith and salvation taken at face value.

All the commentaries embraced the all - too - popularized belief that James is questioning faith in the absence of works, when in reality he is questioning the absence of works in his audience's walk given their faith or having taken their faith at face value, and is simply urging them to «get to work», (Eph 2:10).

Neither Alt nor Albright was prepared to take the biblical account of Israel's origins and early history entirely at face value, yet both saw it as a rich source of historical information.

In the same way, the words of the Mosaic Law, like those of all laws, are to be taken at face value by anyone who reads them.