Sentences with phrase «about morality from»

I won't be spoken to about morality from a Catholic.

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Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

At least religions have books about their Gods and morality that have been claimed for thousands of years to have come from their Gods.

«When one gives up the Christian faith,» said Nietzsche about those «English flatheads,» the Victorians, «one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet.»

Regardless, my initial sentence is about the discussion on morality, where you started again from scratch with on atheism as if we hadn't been discussing anything for the past hour or so.

But politicians shying away from speaking the truth about behavior, about morality — this has actually helped to cause the social problems we see around us.

For all the theological divisions that separated Protestants from each other in the «50s (and separated Protestants, Catholics and Jews), a fairly firm consensus existed about the substance of personal morality and the soundness of American social and political life.

We will not... bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family.

In «The God Delusion», he wrote a chapter on morality that he introduced with the words: «This chapter is about evil, and its opposite, good; about morality: where it comes from, why we should embrace it, and whether we need religion to do so.»

Oh John, you profess god's love from one side of your face while hating atheists from the other and then go so far as to question the morality and credibility of people you don't even know and know even less about.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

This poll indicates that strong majorities of both Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics do not often hear about morality policy issues from clergy.

He had a point; and if we then ask about the «progress» from Grant to Nixon, we would have to acknowledge something like stasis in our political morality.

The Talmud is, in a sense, the business record of the House of Israel, extending over a period of about eight centuries, from 300 B.C.E. to 475 C.E. Much of it is concerned with the business of business or legal relationships, leading again to the charge that Jews are more concerned with mundane matters than they are with morality, more concerned with letter than spirit.

This is, like most of what Nietzsche wrote, unfair: Eliot was neither a «little bluestocking» nor a «moral fanatic,» and moreover drew almost all of her ideas about how to sustain Christian morality without Christian belief from reading Germans like Strauss and Feuerbach.

Buber makes it clear, however, that he is talking about neither «moral autonomy» nor «moral heteronomy,» neither self - created morality nor morality imposed from without.

That is exactly what this is about, keeping religion and gov» t seperate thereby stopping anyones religious belief and religious morality from being shoved down others throats.

Priests and others are reluctant to talk about controversial areas of morality, especially the «pelvic issues», with the result that the main influence on Catholic thinking on those issues comes from the surrounding culture.

Nevertheless, Dawkins still maintains that we need to be concerned about those who do take their morality straight from scripture: «There are people in America who want to have the Ten Commandments hung up in courthouses, contrary to the constitution.

Who, apart from those who stand by traditional ideas about marriage and sexual morality, can deny them?

I laugh every time I hear some ignorant christian beating their chest about how morality is derived from their insulting, hateful, intolerant, and demeaning mythology whose dogma preaches my death.

It has been noted by astute demographers that at the time the baby bust generation began to reach marriage age, the articles in women's magazines began to depart from the «Why He Won't Commit» genre to articles about «The New Morality» and reactions to the sexual excesses of the previous decade.

Falsely linking morality to a belief in the supernatural is a time - tested «three card trick» religion uses to stop its adherents from asking the hard questions about the transparently silly aspects of the faith (s).

What he did gives us was one long argumenturn ad hominem attacking all those who might have serious reservations about not only the war's morality but even its prudentiality from a standpoint of American self - interest.

The Church of England went from a stern position on contraception, to a stern position that refused to generalise about the vast variety of situations, to having nothing to say about the morality of contraception.

If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides both by the profession and the practice of it, I think that no one who can realize this conception will feel any misgiving about the sufficiency of the ultimate sanction for the happiness morality.

The more I read about these philosophy and morality from Wenger, the more I think about how he is not suited for the modern football and the ability to adapt with the changing times.

Increasingly since the 1960s we have been crowding out God and His teachings about love, kindness, compassion and morality from the public square.

That makes the film a pretty straightforward morality tale about a man, who actually does have a soul, weighing the price of taking advantage of people, who are just like him, against the need to provide for his family, who are living in a hotel with a group of other people who have been evicted from their own homes.

The powerful film from director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) and writer Guy Hibbert is a nail - biter as characters argue over the rules of engagement and the legality and morality of war in making a decision about a drone strike in Kenya that targets the Al - Shabaab militant group.

As more young men (and women) learn about sex almost exclusively from pornography, Don Jon's blatant take is both shocking and a bit dull at first, but warms up to reveal a good old - fashioned morality tale.

October Baby (PG - 13c for mature themes) Faith - based morality play about a college freshman (Rachel Hendrix) who embarks on a spiritual sojourn of self - discovery upon learning from her adoptive parents (John Schneider and Jennifer Price) that she's an abortion survivor.

What Donald Trump's Books Say About Winning — Steven Watts writes that 30 years ago with The Art of the Deal, the president broke with a long tradition of American success writing by separating self - improvement from morality.

Whether he writes a gothic morality tale in which a male exotic dancer is haunted by his maiden aunt from beyond the grave, or about a self - help guru who tells his followers his mission is to discover who's been «crapping in your oatmeal,» Saunders's stories are both indelibly strange and vividly real.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

Some argued about the morality of the gambit, but when I interviewed Vettese this week, he said most of his emails were from readers wanting to know more about how to take advantage of it for themselves.

Sometimes that's what you need, not complex stories or nuanced characters or a bunch of tosh about the tricky morality of simply living from day - to - day.

The big positive from this year's ill - starred competition is that it has reopened debate about the quality, validity and morality of contemporary art.

He finds madness and mayhem from four very different artists: Paul Noble's invented world Nobson which has become an entire world (with an awful lot of poo in it), Spartacus Chetwynd's interactive «medieval morality plays» and two nominees which focus on film: Luke Fowler's long film All Divided Selves all about madness and mental illness and Elizabeth Price's The Woolworths Choir of 1979.

your... anecdotes, I was quite clear that «my» anecdote about the SS officer and the Jew was something from a debate about relative morality, a debate which happened between two people that are other than myself.

In the name of saving the planet and thereby ourselves, we invoke those things happening to the very same people fifty years from now, and it is said that this is a great moral issue of our times, but well, what kind of morality are we talking about?

Moreover, they're doing if from a point of a much lower carbon footprint than the U.S. and a much greater sense of RESPONSIBILITY while the average American is still whining about his rights but never thinks about responsibility, when the average American talks about God and morality but doesn't have any sense of social responsibility, only selfishness (when will the world end?

But after the video was taken down, Turkish prosecutors objected to dozens of other YouTube videos that they claimed insulted either Ataturk or â $ œTurkishness.â $ These clips ranged from Kurdish - militia recruitment videos and Kurdish morality plays to additional videos speculating about the sexual orientation of Ataturk, including one superimposing his image on characters from â $ œQueer Eye for the Straight Guy.â $ â $ œI remember one night, I was looking at 67 different Turkish videos at home, â $ Wong told me recently.

There is nothing in the ruling about how these laws harken back to a nineteenth century sexual morality of protecting the public from bad sex and fallen women.

Often, arguments about excessive profits lead on to discussion about the morality of BVC providers taking money from people who will almost certainly never win a pupillage.

I recently saw this quote from an HR manager who receives a high volume of emails from job seekers, «I see some very questionable email addresses that make me wonder about the ethics, morality, and overall professionalism of the applicant.»