Sentences with phrase «excuse for evil»

People will even use freedom as an excuse for evil.

Do I deny that some have used religion s n excuse for evil?

Not exact matches

Probably no one really believes that God is «omnipotent» in this sense, but the idea can reappear as an excuse for inaction in the face of evil.

Actions are evil, he asserts, if they combine three basic features: the «malevolent motivation» of actors, the «serious excessive harm caused by their actions,» and the lack of a «morally acceptable excuse for their actions.»

Jesus has been the inspiration of incredible social renewal and also the excuse for horrible evil.

christians are often embarrassed about the evil found in the bible, so they makes excuses for it.

The only evil that has existed that has been responisble for more hate, murder, child abuse, and illness is bigotry and its allies of willful ignorance and false excuses.

i find it funny that christians making excuses for the bible only say it's a mistranslation or misinterpretation when it's something that is obvious evil, like kill g.ays.

@ Horse: God also planned for his Son to die on the cross — but that does not excuse the evil we did & continue to do.

No excuse for being evil and inflammatory, no matter which side you are on.

christians, embarrassed by disgusting and evil commands like that, make excuses for the bible in order to bring it up to date with modern ethics.

I can't wait to hear the atheist's excuse for why this godless evil - doer wanted to kill so many.

These so - called sympathizers who rise to defend or excuse every tyranny that prevails or social evil that persists in an Arab or Islamic country are, in effect, saying, «We would not for one moment tolerate this in our own country, but it is good enough for you, and is probably all that you are capable of achieving.»

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

«It would not do to excuse a mother for the grossly evil habits of her child by appealing to her use of persuasion only, when sometimes there have been Situations in which some coercion was morally required» (PS 2/1, 45).

Monster: The one you spelled out is this «Once I understood the Bible was not a good guide for morality, all of the arguments that were offered up as explanations or excuses for a book that is certainly evil by modern, civilized standards no longer held water.»

Oh, and she's also a hypocrite who spent years ranting about the evils of private education only to send her own son to a private school using the lame excuse: «I was a single mum just trying to do the best for my son.»»

The main problem is that for the first time since maybe Event Horizon, Anderson seems to be trying to make an actual movie and not just a thinly veiled excuse to indulge himself in ludicrous adolescent fantasies, mainly starring his wife (see: The Three Musketeers 2011 and the entire Resident Evil series, or the «Check Out My Ridiculously Hot Wife» franchise as some on the internet have affectionately dubbed it.)

A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.

They are full of mistakes and they are repeatedly caught telling lies because it's the trend (like when they did the Resident Evil films and it is the trend to hate on them) and when somebody calls them out their excuse is that «it's all for fun» and their fanbase are calling the others fanboys and crybabies.

Price wise the game may claim back some of that criticism, and the decision not to charge full - price compliments the game's portable stylizing, but even this can't excuse the game's by - the - numbers view on survival horror in general, let alone survival - horror for a Resident Evil entry.