Sentences with phrase «one of these apologists»

«Everyone was being a bit of an apologist for him in the room and I just blew up,» Shalala said in an oral history on Clinton's presidency for The Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

I've seen a lot of silliness on the belief blog, but on the Joel Osteen topic, I was gobsmacked by the number of apologists for Biblical slavery coming out of the woodwork.

In the English - speaking world, however, the Cold War having been won, Aron's refusal to join the ranks of the apologists for Stalinism is not as exciting as it once was: thus do scholarly fates wax and wane.

There are a number of these dialogues floating around; they are the fabrications of apologists.

A group of apologists in training put that information together using catholic dogma and tradition.

This line of apologist argument is at best a draw, but perhaps doesn't even rise to that level because at least we have physical evidence for the singularity.

Are you insane or another one of these apologists for the Catholic church, who for DECADES did nothing to address the many issues reported to them by members of their congregations.

Mr. C. S. Lewis may be cited, for one of the apologists; and the theologians are legion.

You would probably cheat if it was just in front of apologists, oh wait, they do cheat now about science, like you tried to do yesterday.

There are a lot of apologists out there that can argue all day for inerrancy.

Theistic Evolution is the product of apologists, Denis Lamoureux in Evolutionary Creation and Teilhard de Chardin's works that were later condemned by the Vatican, they do change their minds once in a while.

This is the mandate of the apologists on this blog and the best you can hope for is a circuar arguement that always ends up with it is «Gods truth».

«The efforts of apologists,» he says, «to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound of bottoms of barrels being scraped.»

When confronted with a contradiction in their dogma or scripture or just the ugliness of some of the things the bible says the first reaction of the apologists is to state absolute knowledge that it can not be so.

i am sick of the apologists....

and the razzy for the worst acting job goes to alex for his portayal of an apologist of priest....

Despite the best efforts of apologists to refer to biblical slavery as merely indentured servitude or as bf does here as merely «volunteers,» the plain language betrays these interpretations.

But the renowned defender of the faith is also known for a more complicated side, famously writing, «I have found that nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist.»

my ad hominim attacks... im tired of the apologists....

On an anonymous blog you can claim anything you want I suppose but your constant use of apologists as learned references belies your claims of personal expertise.

The aim is to describe the phenomenon of Christian belief: not to undertake the task of an apologist and to contend for the truth of Christian belief, but to show what it is, at least in certain of its aspects.

I have found that nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist.

And I'm sick and tired of apologists like you who turn a blind eye to what is actually happening in this world.

All I ask of apologists for the system is that they recognize the latter truth as also a consequence of globalism, and that they then ask the larger question of the compatibility of a capitalist culture with Christian values.

«Have you ever seen a scientist genuflecting to the world (unless he is more of an apologist in disguise than a scientist)?»

Yet surely the instinctive tactics of the apologist give much of its shape to the article.

If he lives here like I imagine then he should be aware of the following facts: Mourinho has been in charge of clubs with unlimited resources since leaving Porto which most of his apologists like quoting.

Christ this forum is full of apologists.

Am I being too much of an apologist for school districts?

I usually have so much for Gay City News, so it was disappointing to hear about your endorsement of this apologist for plutocrats, police violence, and the bigoted status quo.

The Happening's miss rate is his biggest yet, getting precipitously close to shattering the hardcore fan base expecting him to deliver on his early promise, and only a smattering of apologists remain.

He appears to have no patience for the arguments of the apologists (Ravitch included) that «it's the poverty, stupid.»

Clement Greenberg, the most influential of apologists for modern painting of the period, placed particular stress on the formal elements of abstraction, while artists» more otherworldly ideals tended to be played down.

On one hand you have a bunch of apologists complaining that Gavin is somehow stifling skeptic creativity by pointing out that they were wrong (if this is the new mantra, I believe Micheal Mann is due some arts and crafts time!).

Mr. Revkin, you are in danger of going down a dangerous road, that of the worst kind of apologists for fossil fuels — masquerading as environmentalists while throwing the public health concerns of the New Yorkers who are least politically and economically positioned to defend themselves to the wayside.

I'm very sorry to see John Marburger, who has connections with many people I know, reduced to this sort of apologist's role.

Not exact matches

Some of the people you'll hear spreading anti-Semitic views are blatant apologists for extremism, justifying a car barreling into an Israeli bus stop or a random knife attack on the street as a legitimate expression of frustration at the lack of a Palestinian state, Jewish victims be damned.

I'm not in, or an apologist for, the industry; I'm just interested in a reasonable scientific debate on an activity that seems to have the potential to add a great deal of value (including in disadvantaged indigenous communities if the resources are on Native Title lands) and enhance Australian energy security.

Hogg in particular became the target of a wave of personal attacks and conspiracy theories, accusing him of being a «crisis actor,» an FBI apologist, and a budding fascist.

Not to sold like a hedge fund apologist here, but they need to close some of these jewelry stores.

Anti-gold apologists will attribute the remarkable move higher in the price of gold this week to the heightened geopolitical tensions between Russia and the U.S. over Syria plus the North Korea situation.

With the help of Mr. Levant, he nastily branded Ms. Kennedy - Glans as a «Liberal saboteur» and a «bizarre cross between a radical feminist and an apologist for a women - hating Arab dictatorship.»

Some apologists will say that god allows these natural disasters to bring the «maximal» number of people to know him, and therefore into heaven.

My friend, author and preeminent American Orthodox apologist Frederica Matthewes - Green, considers the remembrance of death as one of the most helpful disciplines in living a healthy Christian life.

He was one of the original christian apologists.

Christian evangelists and apologists will increasingly find themselves, like Paul in Athens, accused of being «a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection» (Acts 17:18).

As for letters from Rand's apologists, they are of a piece and can be dealt with in general terms.

It's amazing how many flood apologists there are, yet relatively put forward the tower of Babel myth.

Such accusations were presented by the Roman Critic Celsus (citing Jewish traditions) in the 2nd century AD and of course, denied by Christian Apologists.

For Benedict has not only been doctrinally consistent and intellectually sharp, as his apologists often note, but he has, indeed, been a leader, and this may be the most under - appreciated aspect of his reign.