Sentences with phrase «just being a moral person»

And sadly, that may be true, but being a Christian is about so much more than just being a moral person.

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Since gossip is most often akin to condemning other people's faults, it also puts the confidants on the same level, reassuring both that they «operate in the same moral universe,» and have the same views on what's acceptable, what's wildly inappropriate, and what's just plain funny.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Some people need more than just be moral for the sake of being moral they need a purpose for it.

all you have to do is write a book and tell people god told you to write it instead of just telling everyone himself (lazy) then you can be a cults moral compass

The stories of players in these accounts challenge our moral imagination by forcing us to recognize that the uniformed men on the field are not just Football Players, but Persons - brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons like me.

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

Most I know are humanists; people who care about the rest of humanity regardless of their faith and who adhere to a moral code just as noble as anyone, just without a deity as the center of their life.

It is commonly held that religion makes people more just, compas.sionate, and moral, but a new study suggests that the data belie that as.sumption.

Just as Hitler was a failure in his attempt to destroy the body of the Jewish people, the White Rose, and the moral interest of many Germans today in it, will hopefully show that Hitler also failed to destroy the soul of the German people.

This is not god's moral, it's just commands he gave to Israel people in certain situations.

And to live in society and even just have friends one must prove he or she is a «moral» person, this morality is just a morality that lacks gods, such as a belief that what is good is what brings about the most happiness or freedom or whatever your ethical system supports.

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum's moral analysis in» Blood for Blood» and» They Did It» is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states.

An isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle has just been contacted by the outside world for the first time, do you believe as tf does that his god has written his morals on the hearts of these people?

Too many people are still willing to believe that just because someone can quote from the bible, or identify as part of the supposed «moral majority», that they have anyone's interests but their own at heart.

Convenient that people who argue that way about the law know that anything * they * do was just in the temporary purity code, and anything they find disgusting or uncomfortable they know was in the moral, eternal part.

Actually there is a form of proof that people don't need the treat of heaven or the bribe of hell to be moral; the ancient mesopotamians did it just fine.

Just because good and bad have no moral basis doesn't mean that it's in your best interest to kill people.

More prevalent and more insidious is the fact that just war discourse deceives sincere people by the very nature of its claim to base moral discernment upon the facts of the case and on universally accessible rational principles.

Who that person is and what he or she may think about religion are thus weighty questions, not just for science and the academy, but also for communities of belief, and indeed, the entire moral and spiritual fabric of our culture.

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.

Just as there is no moral quality in the fact that persons are born male or female, so these other human differences are facts.

When Obama invoked Jesus to support same - sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.

If a lion kills a zebra we don't call it «murder,» and if a great white forcibly copulates with a female, we don't call it «rap.e» If everything is objective to people, moral code being up for grabs, it seems quite feasible to live in a world where these things labeled as crimes are all just as ok as in the animal world!

Just an fyi, people — Rand's heroes (Galt, Roark, et al) were never intended to be internalized and universalized as some moral normative standard by which everyone should judge themselves.

It's as if the moral of the story was, «Just kidding, people never really change or mature!

Atheists are just as moral as religious people.

Because people with different moral principles than you have morals that are just as valid as yours.

Trying to keep gay people from having the same rights as you just becuase they are gay and you are not is in no way moral behavior.

Any religion can lead people to being good and moral citizens, just as atheism can lead people to being jerks.

The Second Vatican Council, in insisting in the document on Ecumenism that there can be no change or concession within the Church Catholic in matters of doctrine of faith and morals, has equivalently informed us in the name of the Holy Spirit, that it is the will of God to give to His Church and to His people who «seek Him with a sincere heart» just such new knowledge, new vision, and new unity.

Atheists are just as moral as religious people as a result, because we are all people and function the same way.

on that premise there is an increasing number of people who question «dominion over all the beasts» on «moral» grounds, and I'm not just talking about vegans.

I don't think that people who were instructed to murder others are moral just because they believed in what they were doing.

You sound like a good person to me just as you are and more moral than many religious people.

I think that once more people recognize that Christianity is just one more cult / supersti - tion, we will see more people leaving it and its idiocies behind and replacing their cult with more solid moral bases.

The standard was lowered not by any real point of science but because the standard was lowered because the ability to judge moral issues was given up by the APA.The Bible standard was also given up, so now you essentially have no standard just a set of laws telling people you can or cant do.

There are too many people on the moral sidelines who think they are living well just because they avoid specific acts of evil.

The simplest moral philosophy of doing unto others as you have them do unto you is readily understandable by all normal people, just as a pleasure shared is not halved but doubled but, to the amoralist, the psychopath it has no meaning as they have no empathy and feel neither the happiness nor the sadness of others, they are genetically abnormal suffering from an actual and real physical defect.

Why in this country do we seem to teach that having faith in god is more important then having knowledge and wisdom based on lived experience rather then stories based on 2000 year old morals and ethics???? Lets grow up and start living up to our const.ituation, or is that just another truthless notion to which people claim to live by?

Every single church in the nation can refuse to marry gays and preach against, but you can't make other people follow your moral code just because it's yours..

So, if a particular mark of one's moral code is to not harm people, then someone who commits murder just missed that mark.

You sound just like the people in the dark ages did when they were against civil rights for African Americans and women, you're the one on the wrong side of the moral debate with no facts to back yourselves up.

That assumes that just because someone claims they are a man of God that they are a moral person.

So many fine people have fallen unconsciously into forms of religious confusion and moral duplicity which are just as bad as those they are trying to fight.

This people who had the one God and a moral law were supposed to have a place, time, setting, home... to practice a more just society in, more just than those whom they displaced is usually the assumption or meaning.

@ Observer: I was just trying to see if he is one of those ppl that don't believe in any moral code at all.

I think an employer has a moral obligation to be concerned about the welfare of one's employee's — maybe not legally required (to a degree)-- i wish it were simple that people could just quit an employer that had no concern for the people so that enterprise would go under or wise up — i think though employers are actually more upset about money instead of morals — women and doctors should be deciding such issues — i do not know y i even bother posting since i know these posts will not actually affect anything --

About the comparative moral status of the «early embryo» and the «later - term fetus» he is just as confused as the many American people for whom he claims to speak.

Many people believe religion is a source of morality, and a way to guide themselves in a moral, just way.