Sentences with phrase «individual faith and morals»

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It is true also that an environment of disregard for the authority of doctrinal Christianity facilitates the ready and immediate acceptance of any criticism or objection against Christian faith or morals, — especially morals, — and that for the majority of men, particularly for the majority of the young, these latter are the immediate and primary causes of individual apostasy.

There exists, therefore, and must exist, a teaching of the Church which possesses an importance and binding force for the faith and moral conscience of the individual Catholic, although in what it directly states it can not and does not intend to make any claim to the absolute assent of faith, and although it is not irreformable but is still involved in the elucidatory development of the Church's consciousness of its belief.

Religion as the means of well - being for a community and thus for each individual, who has a role in that community, requires a common understanding between like - minded involving faith in a creed, obedience to a moral code set down in sacred Scriptures or participation in a cult.

The fact of freedom makes the more necessary the sharing of life with that company of people whose faith and moral conviction are necessary to each individual's moral sanity.

Similar attacks were made on the Church of England's report Faith in the City (1985), which was criticized by some for blaming crime and delinquency on bad social and economic conditions, rather than on the individual's moral failure.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.