You have exposed my original point quite nicely with your well - intentioned concern for the business, and my point is this... We have ALL been co-opted by the sales process from the top down, from seventy - five years ago to today, without giving much real thought to just what is going down
in a moral sense when the vast majority of us go into this business with thoughts of grandeur, money, fame, more money etc., etc..
Not exact matches
What,
in a
moral sense, do we convey
when we refer to people as «selves»?
Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth
in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good
moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.
In fact there wasnt any room
in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So
when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can
sense some of you are getting fidgetty.
But our language is being debased
in the most profound
sense when it loses the ability to discern and describe the lineaments of our
moral lives.
When considered
in light of the substantive
moral basis of democratic governance, Roe v. Wade and similar decisions stand out as «undemocratic»
in a far more radical
sense than the one Justice Scalia has
in mind.
Rather, we are referring here to our
moral or ethical
sense: our ability to recognize right and wrong, justice and injustice, even
when inequity is socially acceptable and injustice is inherent
in the existing structures.
In fact, if ethical disputes only make sense when morals are objective, then relativism can only be consistently lived out in silenc
In fact, if ethical disputes only make
sense when morals are objective, then relativism can only be consistently lived out
in silenc
in silence.
The lesson I draw from this is that to profess
moral truths, even
when they are not only universally valid but even,
in some
sense, universally known, can not be a theologically neutral act.
When practicing the Law of Love, we are pretty much «flying by the seat of our pants,» relying on common
sense and intuition rather than a
moral manual or theological dogmas to keep us from making errors
in judgment.
Turning first to the relation of faith and justice, I wish to argue that even
when «justice» is understood not merely
in a generally
moral but
in a specifically political
sense, the demand for justice is a demand of faith itself.
In that
sense, NFP marks a «
moral minimum», a way of avoiding children without sin -
when there are serious reasons to do so.
What we don't know is exactly
when the uniquely human capacity for empathy and justice emerged
in our ancestors and how cultures build on a universal
moral sense.
These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust
when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination of particular kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts
in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged;
moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around
sense of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.
When I stumbled over the Keto diet, I read the theory and it just made
sense BUT it was not
in keeping with my
morals, I have found a few vegan keto diet bloggers (yeah!!!)
(Hotels
in Peru don't pay sales taxes
when locals do) The tourism handled incorrectly, without respect to locals, without ethics,
moral or respect to the rules of the Park, without care and respect of the environment is dishonest
in all
sense,
in the other hand many companies do not pay taxes
in Peru and this is reflected
in their low prices and a poor improvised service without experience neither quality exploiting porters, cooks and inexperienced students guides.
When it comes to absolute
moral values, Etzioni explains, it is the imperative quality that rules — the
moral sense that the person «must» behave
in the prescribed way, that one is obligated, duty bound.
So
when you say «prostitution is legal», this carries no
moral judgement
in the
sense that prostitution is
moral or immoral.