Not exact matches
Ad legend David Ogilvy's famous
admonition, «The consumer is not a moron, she's your wife» may bear the gender biases
of its era, but the truth at the heart
of the
statement is as relevant today as ever.
There had been no systematic political theology for two centuries, so Pius IX and his advisers cobbled together a number
of pontifical
statements and
admonitions, grouped them under various headings, and fired away.
I can not fathom how the writer
of this piece and some
of the people he quotes could possibly Interpret those two
statements of Jesus as other than an
admonition to keep religion out
of politics.
I have to tell you, I am staunchly conservative, as I'm sure you can attest, and I am against the unending flood
of illegal and undocuumented immigration into the U.S.. But, like the
statement says, what we need is a logical, enforceable, orderly process by which we, as Americans, can express the opportunities to come enrich our culture to future immigrants that so many
of our ancestors enjoyed, which coincides with the Church's
admonition to help the needy.
Here, and in other egalitarian literature, principle is given priority over application;
admonition is given preference over description.34 What is dangerous in such a procedure, though it admittedly works in many cases, is the implied epistemological claim that objective, impersonal
statements are
of a somehow higher order
of trustworthiness than the more personal and relational aspects
of Scripture.
The American Dental Association got the Department
of Health and Human Services to concede in a public
statement that «flossing is an important oral hygiene practice,» to which the dental association added its own
admonition that «a lack
of strong evidence doesn't equate to a lack
of effectiveness.»