Sentences with phrase «highly moral people»

Jesus sometimes offended highly moral people by befriending tax collectors.

Furthermore, the alternative that you state should have proof of its effectiveness in producing highly moral people, for example, better than Mother Teresa.

In recent years the belief in hell has waned among Protestants partly because of the difficulty of locating it in space but more from the conviction that a loving God would not want to condemn anyone — even a hardened sinner, to say nothing of a kind and highly moral person who is not a Christian — to endless torment.

Not exact matches

Observer, I would be the last person to say that there are no moral non-Christians, or that ALL Christians are highly moral.

Penn Jillette makes this observation about god, claiming to be moral, doing things that would be considered highly immoral if done by people.

Belief in God or the practice of religion is not necessary in order for people to be highly moral beings.

Its vastness, its diversity, on the whole, its lack of discriminating judgment as to what may be called sacred — so that it includes both the highly moral and the base — make it a literature difficult for peoples of Hebrew - Christian backgrounds to appreciate fully.

Ah, the sickeningly sweet (like decay) of the self righteous special people, blessed by god for their highly moral stance.

Belief in God may not be necessary in order for people to be highly moral beings, but the real question is: Can you rationally justify your unconditional adherence to timeless values without implicitly invoking the existence of God?

Nevertheless, the mainline churches constantly generate within themselves smaller groups of highly motivated people who are at work on the frontiers of moral advance.

There is, for example, a tradition of libertarian thought which argues that people (can) establish moral rights to highly unequal amounts of private property and income in a state of nature.

That said, that concept of a «credit score» traveled rapidly to insurance, because moral character is highly correlated with how a person drives.

People (the public, the media, and so forth) naturally wonder, if only 1 percent of all ethicists, spiritual leaders, moral philosophers, other philosophers, «wise women and men», and so forth are speaking out in ethical / moral terms, then those ethical / moral arguments must truly be «not all that important», or «highly controversial and not broadly accepted», or «only held by theoretical folks», or whatever.