Sentences with phrase «about morality like»

This Hobby Lobby case isn't about morality like conservatives would have us believe.

He talks about morality like Christianity is always so great at defining it.

Some people talk about morality like if it weren't for Christianity there would be no morals.

Not exact matches

We have some quick stories about Abraham traveling around with sarah every where, occasionally screwing stuff in the name of good, almost killing his son in the name of god, selling his wife up the river a couple of times in the name of god, sounds awfully predictable and robot like to me, and yet you have odysessus, a constant lost hero trying to make his way back to his wife penelope and struggling with his own morality, journeys, trials and ultimate success.

Fellowship with Him, communication with Him, and striving to as best we can become like Him with the help of the Holy Spirit, brings about His morality to some extent.

If you hear someone talking about sin they are more likely talking about big problems like environmental degradation, economic justice, and war, than about issues of personal morality like adultery or gluttony.

As the middle ground between traditional religious morality and secular hedonism continues to shrink in America today, college students like Cox's are realizing that they must make a choice about whether truth matters.

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.

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.

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

Thus she tackles things like sexual morality, how we dress, our attitude to human beauty, and our ideas about food and hospitality.

Traditionalists who like to see morality as a series of rules with messages about bending one's will creakingly into line with stern teachings will not like this book very much — or, rather, they will like it, and they will know it makes sense, but they will try very hard to dislike it because it presents the Catholic and incarnational message in a John Paul II sort of way.

Today most Methodists neither know nor care what their bishops believe about morality and all are free to attempt by democratic methods to change any of the church's moral positions they do not like.

And thanks to freedom of speech, I can complain about their morality standards all I like!

Many in America who make their livings talking about politics and morality live, like Nietzsche's last man, under the assumption that we can «be good without God,» as Glenn Tinder phrased it in the December 1989 issue of The Atlantic.

I'm talking about how an idea like religion tries to dictate its own version of morality to others by declaring a certain group of people as being abominations... oh, but we still love you, you crazy little abomination you... so long as you do only what we tell you is ok.

Trained to speak about culture and morality in «neutral» ways («value systems» and that sort of thing), people like me can offer ourselves as «global leaders» rather than parochial Americans.

Such a view of morality is fundamentally at odds with those (like me) who believe that moral life is about the formation of virtuous people by tradition - formed communities.

He'll reappear tomorrow, yipping like a Pomeranian on steroids about some other obsession of his — subjective / objective morality, perhaps.

While I get to make some really important life decisions for them, like what I feed them for dinner or how they are taught about life and morality, I decided to leave the decision of how and what their online presence would look like to them.

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.

Like Jerry Maguire, it's a morality play about a cocky young man humanized by failure who becomes a success as a human being only after failing spectacularly in business.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan weaves a tale that speaks to human morality and mortality in a way that American cinema, mainstream or independent, doesn't like to think about anymore.

Teacher's Pet is a little like H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau: a morality tale about loneliness, responsibility, and not fiddling around with nature that happens to be leavened by a good healthy dose of fiddling around with nature, lawlessness, and amorality.

The data book assembles a wide set of statistics about the Hispanic population in Idaho which includes information on topics like demographic change, morality, health, employment, and education.

In the course of that process, I've learned something, and I would like to think that the reader would learn something too, whether what I've been writing about involves such things as breast cancer in Before The Swallow Dares, the dubious morality of politicians in The Heat of the Kitchen, or, in the case of Billy's War, what it was like to be a little boy in war - torn Britain in the 1940s.

Sure, the game might play like a slightly wonky platformer, but under that The Cave is a tale about morality and the dangers of getting exactly what you wish for.

The mystic atmosphere of these paintings can apply to whichever period of humanity and talk about topics like faith, the human relationships, morality or devotion — because it's the things that could never be affected by the passage of time.

The Pope may think of himself as a moral heavy weight but in reality, he's a bureaucrat and wears morality like a personality... it goes with the turf and is just about as deep as the greens.