Sentences with phrase «ridicule what»

Often, people ridicule what I do in my home.

Outraged by the carnage and immorality of the War, Dadaists were anti-war, anti-art, and determined to ridicule what they considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world.

People will always ridicule what is right.

He often used the term «gay» pejoratively, and in 2011 issued a call on Facebook for his followers to share stories about and publicly ridicule what he deemed «effeminate anatomically male worship leaders.»

It is easy, and sometimes necessary, to ridicule what is currently celebrated in the world of the arts.

Must you ridicule what you do not understand?

Mankind has indeed advanced in many ways, but has become void of virtues of love, compassion, justice and righteousness, and has becopem unnatural, twisted and abnormal... There are people here and on other blogs who ridicule what you and I say, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that what we're saying is obvious, and it's reality.

They ridiculed what they understood to be Christian dogma and led me to wonder how any intelligent person could be a Christian.

From day - to - day they rely very much on their belief, the meaning of their life and the sacred in order to survive, so when they see the «rich and comfortable» people of the West mocking and ridiculing what they consider to be sacred, they are doubly offended.

Not exact matches

He also worries that regulating these tech companies or ridiculing them for what they do or say will make matters worse.

While I might be pleased with the nitty - gritty of what I can recall, most of the time I'm ridiculed for giving so much brainpower to such frivolous stuff.

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

You know exactly what he said, and you know exactly the way he ridiculed everyone on that stage!»

Mr. Samaras ridiculed Syriza's welcoming of Mr. Draghi's announcement, saying the leftists, who oppose the terms of Greece's loan program, «clearly do not know what's going on.»

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

Why would an atheist want to believe in God, because if they did, they would have to change their lifestyle and they don't want to do that — that would take away what they consider, their freedom to do anything they choose not to mention the fun they get out of ridiculing believers.

It took a lot of guts to stand up for what he believed in knowing full well he was subjecting himself to public ridicule.

hawaiiguest Perhaps you fear ridicule when your answer betrays what you felt has been a logical and reasoned approach to discredit the authority of the Bible.

Once the speaker licenses moral ridicule toward the accused, and destroys in him any semblance of moral character, truthfulness, or decency, on what ground will such a person stand?

so we laugh at them, make fun of them, ridicule them because for a long time they had the power and imposed their bs will on the rest of us... guess what xties... payback's a biotch...

Obviously Kerry Egan came to understand what the Professor that ridiculed her did not!

An evangelically centered Church, attuned to the Spirit and the times, will thus choose its bishops from among those men who have demonstrated a capacity to mount a countercultural witness by inviting people into friendship with the Lord Jesus — and it will do so knowing that it is calling these men to various forms of martyrdom, of which opprobrium and ridicule are often the least of what may be expected.

A professor (or anyone for that matter) who ridicules you for sincere acts of kindness should take note of what Christ said about the Pharisees and their hypocrisy.

The poison of religion affects us everyday in so many ways and this is not something to be commended rather than something to be ridiculed and show up for what it is.

@Bob Bales — I believe he's effectively restating what Jefferson suggested: «Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.»

What a shamefully ignorant individual he is, especially for ridiculing you anonymously in class.

It does not matter what PRESIDENT OBAMA does, people will always find something to ridicule him about.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

In fact, quite the reverse of what you suggest is true; i.e., the situation today is that many scientists ARE believers, but they dare not «come out of the closet» for fear of being ridiculed and / or losing government and / or academic grants.

But look at what she and her supporters had to go through: threats; intimidation; ridicule; loss of friends; debt; years or months of sleeplessness, stress and anxiety; self - doubt; fear; demands for proof of medical records, police reports, emails, and court documents; then finally being believed not because you are a person but only because you produce authoritative authentication.

What other group is ridiculed equally by Christians and secularists — and not just any kind of Christian or secularist but the most fervent and hard core?

I don't like how some atheists ridicule believers, because they have faith in something or someone that can't be proven — that's what faith is all about, and I know that.

Let the world ridicule our words, Julian, but we KNOW that what we know is truth, and undeniable reality, which in the times to come will unfold it, as it happens!

Too bad for you that you botched what was supposed to ridicule someone.

You have dismissed and ridiculed an entire philoshophical branch of academics (most notably those philosophies that deal with what exists outside of our restricted physical universe)-- demonstrating a very intellectually stunted view.

What is so pathetic to me is how many atheists are on a «Belief» blog just waiting to ridicule other people's religious views.

Russ says:@ Honey Badger: so what comfort do you have to offer the parents of a dead 8 year old — aside from ridiculing religion?

But I think there is a big difference in stating what you believe, and stating what you believe and adding how ridicules, harmful, absurd, and life - wasting you think my beliefs areâ $ ¦ with a smirk.

But it reminded me of what one of the other speakers at the fishing training conference had said, about how we would get ridiculed, mocked, and persecuted for being a fisherman.

Ridicule is what happens to honest politicians — the liars and crooks always say what the media wants to hear and they swoon for them to get access.

Any religion that teaches hate of anything but what God hates such as fornication idolotry or murder is not a true Christian there is only one Christian faith that has never been accused of doing nothing but teach people the bible going door to door but this is why people ridicule them for doing what the bible says they do nt charge for their material they do nt have communions they do nt pay their members for 2 years or send them to a college for doing so they do nt pay the speakers like other churches and they do nt hate anyone based on any reason they only give them bible knowledge then once they know the knowledge its their choice what to do with it.

Unless you can give credible evidence for your God (hint: the Bible is not a good example in case you didn't understand what I meant by self / circular reference), then you will continue to be ridiculed for being gullible.

This man may die for a belief that he feels he can not recant, and instead of respecting him, you ridicule him for what he believes.

Therefore they can not endure what even to them seems a contradiction, and which as reflected from the world around them appears much more glaring, that to be concerned for one's own soul and to want to be spirit is a waste of time, yes, an inexcusable waste of time, which ought if possible to be punishable by law, at all events is punished by contempt and ridicule as a sort of treason against men, as a froward madness which crazily fills up time with nothing.

No person has the right to insult and ridicule someone for what they believe.

There are those that will mock and ridicule people of faith but Jesus told us that they will do to us what they did to him so it should come as no big surprise even the disciples and apostle and one point in their lives either didn't believe or persecuted people who did believe until their eyes were opened this is nothing new.

But what you don't see are those who are being made fun of or ridiculed running around killing people over this.

ridicule is not the same as telling people what they CAN and CAN NOT believe and further enforcing that.

Feeble attempts to appeal to the masses or to be hip and cool is what leaves the Christian community open to ridicule and jokes.

What is perhaps most disconcerting is the fact that even after multiple women expressed their concerns in the comment section, both Jared Wilson and Doug Wilson repeatedly dismissed these concerns with exasperation and condescension, ridiculing the commenters» lack of «reading comprehension.»