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And your mocking use of “chosen people” is an ignorant and bigoted and condescending distortion of a religious doctrine that has already been explained to you, and of which you choose to remain willfully ignorant.

The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey 2010

That is why those who would remain willfully ignorant about this insist that following it would lead to bad things.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

Scholars are always saying that journalists lack subtlety about religion, but it seems to me that David Hein willfully misses the subtlety of my article.

Letters to the Editor 2009

Scholars are always saying that journalists lack subtlety about religion, but it seems to me that David Hein willfully misses the subtlety of my article.

Letters to the Editor 2009

Try my Dear Mollie, to live just as near to God all the time as you can, do no sin willfully, for that is all that constitutes an action that is wrong, a sin - we have our infirmities still and our judgements

Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie HoustonMay 1857 2008

There is a fair amount of shame in willfully remaining one.

he's got a mean look sittin' on in his eye, gonna shoot some poor son of a bitch just to see him die matociquala 2007

If Mr. Aragon wants to remain willfully indignant, than let him be free to do so.

Apologies : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Maybe the shamed person might prefer the number not be there, but frankly I don’t have alot of sympathy for people who want to remain willfully ignorant just so they can avoid shame.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010

Maybe the shamed person might prefer the number not be there, but frankly I don’t have alot of sympathy for people who want to remain willfully ignorant just so they can avoid shame.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010

Maybe the shamed person might prefer the number not be there, but frankly I don’t have alot of sympathy for people who want to remain willfully ignorant just so they can avoid shame.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010