Sentences with phrase «accept arbitrary rules»
Until this is accepted, the Abrahamic religions are going to have an increasingly difficult time, as fewer an fewer people will accept arbitrary rules based on irrational principles.
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These people can't accept that reality because it would mean that they have no reason to oppose homosexuality other than a completely arbitrary rule that divides humanity into two different classes without any real reason to do so.
To assent to the rules of engagement prescribed by liberal public reason is to accept a voluntary and arbitrary limit on how deeply one is willing to think, which then becomes an involuntary limit on how far one is able to see.
The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.