Sentences with phrase «immorality of»

But it also brought to the fore a fundamental conflict arising at the time of the establishment of Australia as a colony; that is the conflict between the assertion on the one hand that the settlement of Australia gave rise to exclusive territorial jurisdiction by the colonial power and, on the other hand, the illegality and immorality of asserting this right without an agreement from those who previously occupied that land and who continue to maintain their deep spiritual economic and social connection to the land.

Mead herself recommended everything from beginning to educate children as young as 6 years old of the immorality of piracy to making examples of the wrongdoers who get caught.

It had this to say about the grounds for arrest in the first place: «Let us put aside for a moment the clear immorality of a government that illegalizes the act of feeding the homeless.

This is climate denial of the status quo sort, where people accept the science, and indeed make long speeches about the immorality of passing on a ruined world to our children.

Re uncertainties — while the uncertainties create confusion and doubts and inaction, in actuality they make the immorality of what we are doing much worse.

Filmmakers and friends Swanberg and Decker — who both have features at the 2013 La Di Da Film Festival — discuss the immorality of not making comedies and the challenges of making sexually charged films.

Outraged by the carnage and immorality of the War, Dadaists were anti-war, anti-art, and determined to ridicule what they considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world.

We see hundreds of small cameras in «The Truman Show,» a film about the unknowing star of a reality television show, then Truman succinctly cuts through the immorality of it with, «You've never had a camera in my head.»

Iannuci's past pointed barbs designed to tear apart the hypocrisy and immorality of our leaders (TV series Veep and The Thick of It; the feature In The Loop) did the job but left us with one finger grasping humanity; not so The Death of Stalin.

Lucy, her older sister Martha (Amy Seimetz), and their younger squirt brother Ben (Charlie Shotwell) have driven all night in an RV, and are there with other hippies to protest the immorality of capital punishment.

A fast - paced, dialogue - driven, well - constructed little film about the immorality of our times, specifically playboy Roger (Campbell Scott) and how he decides to give his 16 - year old nephew (Jesse Eisenberg) in town a crash course in how to get laid after his nephew asks for his help.

Of course, there's no suggestion they did anything illegal, but given Miliband's regular drum - beating about the immorality of tax avoidance it is more than ironic to see his party's accountants engaged in such nifty footwork.

The notion of absolute «do's and don'ts» that can provide final judgments about the immorality of any particular sexual act is rejected.

Nepotism, unfair employment practices and political corruption, the traditional immorality of the priesthood were the order of the day.

It is not a secret that many American Catholics disagree with the Church's teaching on the immorality of contraception... it is hard not to suspect that a few Catholic institutions, perhaps administered by Catholics who privately reject the Church's teaching on contraception, would simply choose to abide by the mandate... would put themselves in open rebellion...»

In one period, Niebuhr stressed the morality of the individual as over against the immorality of society.

The anti-christian immorality of unbelieving Americans is embarrassing USA.

A lot of believers ignore the cruelty and immorality of their positions through the arrogance that it is justified by the joy / correctness they are creating for themselves and other «true» believers.

You are the one taking it out of context in a sad attempt to lessen the immorality of what it says.

The increase of crimes against persons and property has many causes, and a declining sense of the immorality of such crimes is certainly one of them.

Moralists can rant and rave about the immorality of such actions, but it does not change results.

as I just posted... stealing is a WHOLE commandment... Jesus would not tolerate the immorality of the govt stealing from honest hard working tax payers to pay for whatever someone else considers important.

2Pe 2:7 But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him.

King himself had already begun to think not only of blacks but of the poor generally, and his linking of civil rights concerns to the immorality of the war in Vietnam is indicative of the promise that we hope may still blossom with power.

The second is that these same people, or at least many of us, are apt to deplore with shock the overt immorality of others without looking within at our own less conspicuous, but self - satisfied, immoral attitudes.

@Buddy R, Believing in traditional marriage and the immorality of abortion is not the same thing as having the government enforce such beliefs, via legislation, on its citizens.

lack of recognition of an ultimate judge of moral actions and a judge who sets injustice aright in a last judgement, and thus do not recognize the immorality of murder.

The new despair focuses on the immorality of spending $ 90 billion annually on the arms race while millions hunger, on allowing profits to burgeon while millions are losing their jobs.

The Bible reports the immorality of the world and its ways in contrast with the goodness of God.

Longley sketches the history of the question of artificial contraception through the 1960s and the widespread expectation that there would be a change in the Church's teaching concerning the immorality of its use.

Here Dowsing pulls few punches, presenting well the «children as gift», not burden or right, argument and is very clear on the immorality of separating the unitive and the procreative.

The left commends sexual liberation as the best avenue to achieve individual autonomy, while nonsensically condemning the immorality of a marketplace in which sex is the best sales pitch.

I believe the abortion ethic is fatally and forever flawed by the immorality of the means of its victory.

Family standards are continually subject to erosion from the inflow of debased materials from the mass media — as in the brutality and immorality of many of the so - called «comic» books, the triviality, sensationalism, and distortion of most journalism, and the preoccupation with crime and violence in many television programs.

Christians reasoned their way from believing in divine righteousness to seeing the immorality of human bondage to advocating total, outright abolition.

Ministers marched in the streets protesting injustices in housing, inadequacy of education, and then the immorality of the Vietnam war.

It is able, contrary to the opinions of Sarah E. Hinlicky and R. Albert Mohler, Jr., to establish the immorality of contraception independent of whether the contraceptive method has abortifacient effects.

«The immorality of the United States and Great Britain's decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history,» wrote Tutu.

This exposes the true immorality of your position.

The more common defence of the standard approach starts by admitting that «economic man» is a simplification, but then argues that the one - dimensional immorality of seeking more for less is sufficient to explain the economic world.

The immorality of landlordism.

You calling a fetus a «person,» doesn't say anything about the supposed immorality of abortion.

The widest disparity between rich and poor aroused no censorious voice; slavery, exploitation and immorality of all kinds were commonplace, while a gang of more or less discarded gods and a bevy of passé goddesses permeated the common life of the countries surrounding the eastern Mediterranean.

And your religion has the worst history of immorality of any religion.

It is not too harsh to say that Luther was one of the few major Lutheran church leaders until the twentieth century to see that condemning the immorality of the state was part of his vocation.

Reaching out in mercy to someone with AIDS implies more about the faith of the church than it does about the morality or immorality of the sufferer.

Where does the «type of consciousness» come from that enables Christians to see the IMMORALITY of God's support for slavery and discriminations?

The Western tradition of moral reflection has produced a long line of reasoning about the fundamental worth of people and the immorality of direct killing.

How do we make a public argument for immorality of pornography?

He agreed with me about the «basic immorality of the administration's rule» — that to whomever it applied (i.e., all the not - exempted), it would put the legal authority of the federal government behind the mandatory provision of early - stage pharmaceutical abortions.