Sentences with phrase «own holy writ»

And like most religions, its adherents believe that it is holy writ that can't be questioned.

First, when you say Einstein / Hawking came up with specific things that supports your point, it's not holy writ, they could be wrong, so disagreeing with them doesn't make me wrong.

These exceptions are really internal contradictions that get into the documents because this is committee writing, not Holy Writ, and every group wants its say, including the anti-anthropocentrists.

Although the early Christian writers had the Old Testament as their Scriptures, not one of them had any idea that he was writing something that would itself become Holy Writ.

For this reason, efforts to prevent sinful humans from tampering with the pristine character of holy writ are futile.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

In holy writ, the conjunctions between authentic faith and the worlds of commerce are strangely varied: the Hebrew Scriptures contain much in the Pentateuch on the protection and use of property, but a different realm of existence is central to the prophets: «Ho, every one who thirsts, come....

The chances are that the Vedic text has been much more correctly transmitted than has the text of ancient holy writ of the Hebrew - Christian tradition, which came to us via the copyists and the printers.

Now my questions about decaying modernity are being shaped by ancient, consensual, classic Christian exegesis of holy writ.

There is perhaps some surprise that it was a Roman Catholic pontiff who put this so plainly and commended it so earnestly, without for a moment denying the proper authority attached to «Holy Writ.»

(and the rest of holy writ for that matter)

The true interpretation of the Holy Writ is the job of the Christian Church.

It needs no «holy writ.»

5 Asked about the Inquisition, he said, «Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go.»

Scientists already knew that the Earth is roughly spherical, but many early Christians felt compelled to believe Holy Writ without question.

First, you make the impression that the IPCC TAR, the «consensus» as discussed in previous posts, is some kind of holy writ to be taken on faith.

Note: These are just examples, not holy writ.

Implicit in Michelangelo's outburst is a radical claim: the painter or sculptor was no longer just a humble craftsman but a shaman or secular prophet, and the work of his hands was akin to holy writ.

Take her word as holy writ and go and read.

The philosophy of «buy - and - hold» investing is either holy writ or deviant heresy, depending on who you ask.

If you wish to cite Holy Writ once again to prove that this is not possible, there's not much else one can say other than to mention that someone who has never traded options should not imho be holding himself out as an authority.

The HEX fund, to which you have applied the study conclusions as if they are Holy Writ, is a different & more flexible animal with hand - picked canadian stock underlyings plus 60 - day calls or longer, along with the possibility of higher strikes.

By fusing his pseudo science with the wild - eyed efforts of eco-activists, media dupes and pandering politicians, he's been able to convince the public that his flawed theory is actually holy writ.

The GISS GCM comes close to this sensitivity, and it is IPCC holy writ.

CO2 and global warming there are some things taken as «holy writ» which are based on assumptions made by other people and presented as real.

I am so tired of people who call themselves scientists all the while taking a thoroughly glaringly obviously facile pseudo-science and elevating it to holy writ.

And your quote mining from the IPCC as if it is holy writ is reminding me more and more about the religious zealots I mentioned before,

so you can sarcastically dismiss the IPCC as «the holy writ», but it is incumbent on john quiggin to address each and every argument mcintyre makes on the merits?

Davey's Law is that anyone who regards «biodiversity», «environment» or the «Precautionary Principle» as Holy Writ has lost the argument on grounds of logical incapacity.

ANYONE who says that either WG1, 2, or 3 isn't holy writ, or that the Copenhagen - style efforts towards mitigation have failed (and will likely continue to fail), or that there are more pressing human welfare issues in bag - for - buck terms GETS THE TREATMENT.

It has its own high priests such as Al Gore and a holy writ, such as the IPCC reports.

And behind science lies precisely that «holy writ» of which you speak.

Albeit by far too many — not the least of whom were those in their ever - growing army of unthinking MSM «partners» who should have known better than to glom onto the holy writ of press releases.

One of my chief frustrations with the whole topic is how partial information, and extrapolated conjectures from it, are treated as Holy Writ, not to be questioned, and ironclad proof of the «mainstream» narrative.

First, you make the impression that the IPCC TAR, the «consensus» as discussed in previous posts, is some kind of holy writ to be taken on faith.

So again, think about these questions without simply dismissing them as contradicting Holy Writ:

In that body of lore, some of which has been elevated to the status of holy writ, you'll find advice both supporting and inveighing against every conceivable action.

It is one of those inexcusable barbarisms which was sired by indolence and dammed by indifference, and has no more place in legal terminology than the vernacular of Uncle Remus has in Holy Writ.

Not exact matches

The fact that England had this Holy House, that it was Mary's land, that it honoured marriage as Pope St Gregory wished, led over centuries to that long continuity of our institutions, in which Christian values became writ large in national life.

The claimant in my case wasn't a Russian oligarch, an A-list celebrity or an Arab billionaire (groups who seem to issue writs like they are going out of fashion) but a seemingly innocuous super-wealthy self - styled «holy man» from the Punjab (a state in Northern India) who is reported never to have stepped foot in Britain nor apparently reads, writes or speaks any English.