When Logan is called on to deliver a final
moral denunciation against Halgate, all of the film's weaknesses come to a head.
We are; to be sure, accustomed to
the moral denunciation of social injustice, be it in religious or secular terms.
If anything positive can be said about this grim and ironic situation, it is that as victims of terrorism we may be forced to rethink our own policies on the use of force (including nuclear force) in order to bring them into line with
our moral denunciations of terrorism.
Not exact matches
they have forsaken Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 1:4) and then he uttered one of the most solemn and moving
denunciations of
moral wrong and one of the most momentous pleas for social justice in ancient literature.
Prophetic
denunciation is often of little
moral assistance to the manager seeking to discern what is morally possible within the bounds of
It is such
moral revulsion that speaks in the prophetic warnings and
denunciations where we commonly meet the scathing summary of this whole system of religion: «On every high hill and under every green tree you prostrated yourself as a harlot» (Jer.
by saying: In three ways --(1) its members must fulfil their
moral responsibilities and functions in a Christian spirit; (2) its members must exercise their purely civic rights in a Christian spirit; (3) it must itself supply them with a systematic statement of principles to aid them in doing these two things, and this will carry with it a
denunciation of customs or institutions in contemporary life and practice which offend against those principles...
That, I think, is what all the faux - news satires and parodies really spring from — not so much Swiftian
denunciation of the world's crimes and misdemeanours, which are certainly legion, but from an equally harsh
denunciation of the
moral equivalence and empty concern with which the mainstream media report it to us.