Sentences with phrase «moral absolutes»

This is seen in the tendency today to think about abortion and homosexuality in terms of moral absolutes assumed to be biblical.

The reality is that those really concerned about human dignity are those who are willing to place faith in moral absolutes which safeguard that dignity against the uncertainties of cultural trends.

Edmund Pellegrino explains clearly and simply the sacrilege involved in such an approach: «In ethics generally and medical ethics in particular, autonomy, freedom, and the supremacy of private judgment have become moral absolutes.

The wonderful thing about moral absolutes is they need no explanation.

I would also conclude that where there is what works for you there are not moral absolutes only moral subjectivity.

It failed to teach moral absolutes.

The priests have to do their work on the Sabbath, proving that some aspects of the Sabbath restrictions are not inviolable moral absolutes, but rather precepts pertaining to the ceremonial features of the law.

There ARE in fact moral absolutes.

Yes, those who like to say that there are moral absolutes inherent in people, places, or things are clearly shown to be wrong by the simple existence of an unstable and diverse and contradictory bunch of «holy books».

It readily adopts the language and trappings of revealed religion, yet reformulates doctrine as metaphor, and abolishes moral absolutes in favour of flexible aspirations.

Time (March 10, 1975, p. 83) introduces its comment on the case with the striking words of the Westminster catechism — a document written in the amazing Cromwellian age of Protestant orthodoxy when moral absolutes were thought to be not only propositional but «in the nature of things.»

Modernism at other times is downright scary: how can we persuade other people that what they want to do to us is barred by some unchallengeable moral absolute?

His jeremiads against the collapse of moral absolutes resonates with many black Americans who have experienced firsthand the despair and destruction wrought by the collapse of shared public norms.

If triviality and simple moral absolutes were the two besetting sins of the preacher, then relevance and applicability were the two preacher qualities that Niebuhr most admired and tried to emulate.

There are moral absolute truths.

If we open our eyes and take an honest look, we'll see how that the more we push God out and anything that promotes moral absolutes out of society, and the more we allow immoral behaviour, the quicker society will unravel toward anarchy.

Values that are held in common are treated as moral absolutes; values that are opposed by certain Christians are presented as controversial, and a neutral stance is adopted regarding which view is right or wrong.

Some People say, «I don't believe in Christianity because I can't accept the existence of moral absolutes.

In essence, those individuals committing a trocities in the name of God / religion are absolutely equal to someone like Mai Tse Tung in that they both are their own authority on moral absolutes.

I asked about moral absolutes.

When we try to be healthier and happier, too often these can become moral absolutes — we really want to be «good,» «perfect,» and or «in control».

It expresses a kind of moral absolute.

Sin exists and moral absolutes are real.

If appeals to God get ruled out, either by disbelief in his existence or reluctance to rely upon it, says Matthew O'Brien then it isn't possible to demonstrate that there are moral absolutes.

This expectation is unwarranted, however, because God's existence is directly relevant to moral knowledge and action: If appeals to God get ruled out, either by disbelief in His existence or reluctance to rely upon it, then it isn't possible to demonstrate that there are moral absolutes.

I was a Christian that became an atheist, but i did not abandon morality or the belief in moral absolutes.

While the official course books treat topics like abortion and euthanasia as controversial issues for which there is no definitive judgement of right or wrong, they all have a range of topics which are presented as moral absolutes.

This is not to question their merit, although several are debatable, but to emphasise that contemporary culture, as influenced by successive governments and the mainstream media, has its own set of moral absolutes, usually underpinned by legislation.

It is not stated as a moral absolute.

He observed that there are no «moral absolutes» about sex except that it be consensual, which excludes pedophilia and rape.

A Christian who doesn't think there are moral absolutes (things that are right or wrong no matter what humans think) is like an Atheist who thinks there are.

God is our moral absolute

However, it is not true of the recent Jesse Jackson, the Jackson too often beholden to a cultural agenda destructive of moral absolutes and, ultimately, of democratic community itself.

There are no moral absolutes, but there are such things as empathy, sympathy, logic, reason, common sense, and science to give me a much more effective and intelligent set of morals to live by.

So the doubt (of moral absolutes) is a leap.

No, this is the kind of inanity those who want to believe in a moral absolute try to artificially place on those of us who see morality for what it is.

In a godless world there are no moral absolutes.

But today, moral absolutes have been undermined by a popular culture that celebrates individual fulfillment over self - sacrifice, the indulgence of personal pleasure over doing one's duty.

I am really just trying to understand how you can claim the existence of moral absolutes.