Sentences with phrase «uncritical acceptance»

The attitudes of people of religion towards the media are extremely varied from uncritical acceptance to total rejection of media's presence in the life of society.

The evangelical subculture is not alone in uncritical acceptance of family - related sacred cows.

Again, as in the case of humility, trusting the research and the theories of others does not mean uncritical acceptance.

This is so even though their level of concern about uncritical acceptance of paranormal claims may be greater than that of many of their colleagues.

Whereas in traditional societies this openness often amounted to somewhat uncritical acceptance of the dominant cultural patterns, today it can also mean incorporation of ranges of concern and action from the prophetic traditions of Israel.

While blatant hate and racism certainly motivated plenty of our country's past oppressors, blatant hate and racism aren't nearly as effective at sustaining oppressive systems as uncritical acceptance of the way things are.

My problem with the category of «story» is that it invites uncritical acceptance from many who see it as a new way of doing theology.

That was 2004, and I continue to see the same trend among proselytising Muslims today: constant criticism of Christianity in the face of rather uncritical acceptance of Islam.

Often it equates modernisation with radical westernisation, with uncritical acceptance of the Western technology, Western politics and Western style of life.

Sir Menzies said Britain's position in Iraq was not based on British priorities but on an «apparently uncritical acceptance of a United States strategy that has self - evidently failed».

The widely held view that the genomic and phyletic split between Pan and humans was as recent as 5 to 6 million years ago also fuels the often uncritical acceptance of a Pan-like last common ancestor.

Neon was selected as the medium to make light of the complexity, as it were, and also poke a bit of fun at the art world's uncharacteristically uncritical acceptance of neon works as art.

That and given that even the most trivial things are linked to Climate Change give me cause to believe that we are seeing much uncritical acceptance, or perhaps more accurately some have simply become dogmatic.

So when they explain its value for the treatment of anxiety, they ground their commitment to this approach in their own extensive clinical and research experience in anxiety disorders, not in uncritical acceptance.

Humility on this account does not mean uncritical acceptance: it means, in practical terms, the presumption of wisdom and authority in the author.

At the same time there has been at the other extreme almost an unquestioning and uncritical acceptance of Jesus by many other Christians, especially among large groups of young people without any formal church affiliation.

In their profoundly shallow and reductive view of world history — such as their complete and uncritical acceptance of the asinine assertions of pseudohistorian D.M. Murdock, also known as Acharya S. — Zeitgeisters presume that everything they see as bad in the world, principally money and religion, was designed by a single person or group of people and then implemented whole and complete, the way automobiles go from the drawing board to the factory floor in Detroit.

i. Complementarity provides no justification for an uncritical acceptance of dichotomies.

Unfortunately, however, this theologian imported into his theology a fundamental flaw in existentialist philosophy, namely, its uncritical acceptance of a materialist - mechanistic conception of nature and the corresponding assumption that freedom can never be at home in the machine of the cosmos.

Note the uncritical acceptance of Jesus that continued in the nontheology of the «60s.

Yet we are witnesses to the amazing spectacle of the uncritical acceptance of this unscientific and romantic assumption by men who, in every other sphere of life, pride themselves upon their devotion to evidence presented by «the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.»

This is what I teach in my classes, and this is what pushes many of my students to begin questioning their uncritical acceptance of birth control.

I am not asking for an uncritical acceptance of any policies, methods or movements.

Too often Full Gospel leaders insist on total, abject loyalty and uncritical acceptance of whatever they say.

One of the chief sources of difficulty in our time is the common, uncritical acceptance of the dichotomy between judgments of fact and judgments of value, between so - called «objectivity» and «subjectivity.»

It is my deep conviction that one of the chief sources of difficulty in our time is the common, uncritical acceptance of the foundational dichotomy between judgments of fact and judgments of value, between so - called «objectivity» and «subjectivity.»

Is it the uncritical acceptance of someone else's authority?

Where these assumptions — about the nature of language, of reality, of history, or of nature — are widely accepted, and where they are congenial to the task of doctrinal formulation, their uncritical acceptance is harmless.

Reconstructing Memories The uncritical acceptance of eyewitness accounts may stem from a popular misconception of how memory works.

In your «Instant Expert» on intelligence (2 July), I was surprised at the uncritical acceptance of g, the general factor...

On the other hand, the aura and authenticity of the eyewitnesses can result in an uncritical acceptance of their accounts.

I am not blind to how unattractive Ethel's uncritical acceptance of racism was, to the extent that I think she buried in denial how painful it was to be separated from her only friend, and then see that friend be raped by her father.

(I think that reveals, apart from her uncritical acceptance of her father's biblical argument for racism, that Ethel wanted to have some kind of purpose and power in her life that as a woman she lacked.)

While Sternberg's title might well include critical deconstructions of the supposed inseparability of concrete and digital realities, there is a tendency in the art world, recognised as the first bottom - up contemporary movement of the 21st century, that was founded on an unquestioning and uncritical acceptance of the digitisation of the world narrative.

«Uncritical acceptance» is the term immediately springing to my mind.