Sentences with phrase «above human law»

And religous people are more likely to violate the rights of others in our secular society because their beliefs are often held to be «above human law».

Not exact matches

He condemned and cursed the self - appointed religious leaders who perpetuated the perverted Judaism of the day through their promotion of the Talmud and Rabbinic Halachal above the Mosaic Law given by God; those who added to the Scriptures (the Pharisees) and those who subtracted from the Scriptures (the Sadducees) and anyone else who changed the commandments of God because of their own human desires for acceptance and the honor of men.

Government by law rather than by men presupposes a sanction for law rising above human will.

It places pleasure above love, health and well - being above the sacredness of life, the participation of special interests groups in governance above democratic representation, women's rights above motherhood, the empowerment of the selfish individual above any form of legitimate authority, ethics above morality, the right to choose above the eternal law written in the human heart, democracy and humanism above divine revelation — in a nutshell, immanence above transcendence, man above God, the «world» above «heaven».

21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.

There is thus a cosmic, divine hierarchy in which human values, including equality, make sense and there is a clear notion that God is above and superior to men just as the laws of nature transcend and take priority over the laws of political society.

In it he maintained that Canon Law was in the end supported solely by the false idea that the Pope is above all human judgement.

As stated above, the government will leave it up to courts, tribunals, and commissions, such as the specifically mentioned Ontario Human Rights Commission, to define how the law is enforced.

Governors and voters should take an active posture rather than expect others to do something about it, or some legal and regulatory frameworks, since kindness towards other humans prevails above laws or rules, the common sense of promoting and preserving life (the own and others»).

Lawyers representing parents will argue that under the European convention on human rights and corresponding case law, the state is obliged to treat different religions and beliefs on an equal footing and that religions should not be elevated above non-religious world views in the school curriculum.

Considering this human production leads to the conclusion that there is necessarily a net increase in dissolved carbon dioxide (see Henry's Law above) and the calculations yield in this case a decreasing average pH in the oceans.

Global Warming Hysteria Might be a Crime By Steve Milloy Are academics some special subspecies of humans who are beyond suspicion and above the law?

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After The Home Secretary's extraordinary performance on Andrew Marr this morning where she set out her cunning plan to bring out guidelines for the judges in relation to the interpretation of Article 8 of The European Convention — enshrined in our law by The Human Rights Act — the sardonic side of my temperament would like to substitute the word «government» in the quote above for «freedom».

Plato's Socrates is concerned not with fine points of the law but with the Larger Questions on which the law, and all of engaged human life, depend: what is Good, how can we live in a way that is in keeping with the Good and, above all, how can we go about knowing that anything is True.

In the development of climate change law and policy in Australia, consideration of the above case law may provide further guidance for appropriate protection for Indigenous peoples human rights regarding climate change.

The above discussion shows how the common law construction of native title affects the human rights of Aboriginal people.

It is one of the ironies of the development of the law in this area that the often quoted passage from Justice Brennan's judgment in Mabo) about the influence of international human rights law on the development of the common law (quoted above), was also quoted by Justice Olney in support of the proposition that the international obligation to provide innocent passage justified the limitation of the recognition of offshore native title to non-exclusive rights.

As mentioned above, your only requirement is to be a decent human being, and follow the law.