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Both sides express pious platitudes about concern for the fans and then forget about them.
She avoided couching her demand in overgeneralizing, pious platitudes such as insisting on respect for certain zones of human dignity and decency that transcend gender.
In other words, the phrase is not a pious platitude, but more of an ironic paradox, something like " the most effective way to lie is to do it without saying anything untrue " or something along those lines.
"Is not the excluding attitude of the St . Mary's Preservation Society in rejecting the presence of other ethnic groups in Prince of Peace Parish a form of hatred, " he wrote, " no matter what pious platitudes are used to mask their reckless bigotry ?"
Catholic scholar Anthony Stevens-Arroyo wrote, " While two wars are being waged, with unemployment in double digits, the financial system of the world in suspense, these religious leaders declare that abortion, stem-cell use and same sex marriage override any other Gospel value . ( You won't find Jesus saying anything about abortion or stem cells in the Gospel, but the Savior said a great deal about the homeless, the sick, and the hungry . ) It's cheating to speak pious platitudes about Christianity and ignore Jesus'words ."