Sentences with phrase «moral evil»

This lesson was created as an active revision lesson and examines the issue of natural and moral evil alongside 4 explanations as t why evil exists in the world.

Then came Humanae vitae, reasserting the intrinsic moral evil of contraceptive acts.

I was horrified to see one source approve of abortion, with this chilling language: «without the 42 million abortions worldwide each year, population growth would be much more rapid» — reminding me again of the grave moral evil in which Bongaarts, Ehrlich, and Dasgupta are implicated.

The traditional question of theodicy is, Why does God permit moral evil and permit suffering that serves no discernible good?

This in turn means that he loses the Judaeo - Christian revelation of moral evil as metaphysically secondary and radically unnecessary relative to the intrinsic goodness of creation, and as resulting from the human abuse of his unique spiritual freedom.

By referring to the «ruthlessness of god,» «the god of mischief,» and «if the best be bad,» Whitehead is not attributing moral evil to God.

Todd Akin Akin: abortion «easily trumps slavery as the greatest moral evil in American history» July 10, 2014

We can also see the root of why Haught finds it difficult to account for moral evil.

Also, as Christians we are required to speak out against moral evils that leadership in our nation may legislate in favor of.

When people speak of «permitting the lesser evil» they may have one or other of a number of different comparisons in mind, either between greater or lesser moral evils, or between what they think of as greater or lesser «pre-moral» evils.

For example, abortion would be treated as an absolute moral evil; the reasons supporting that belief would be presented, while reference would be made to those who support abortion and their arguments critically appraised.

They are complicit in objective moral evil.

Indeed he virtually subsumes moral evil under natural evil, and sees Eastern answers to the problem of evil as essentially compatible with the Christian one.

This confusion arises because Whitehead uses the term, «evil,» to refer both to aesthetic evil and moral evil without distinguishing between them.

If, on the plane of moral evil rather than physical or «natural» evil, one replies that with the real freedom of the free will goes the real power of personal sanctifying grace to sweeten and transform our personalities if we will allow Him, the rejoinder comes, «well, yes, but if He is almighty why does He not stop me from sinning and going to hell?»

He either could uproot mankind and begin again (since a morally perfect being can not forever endure moral evil) or ignore his own eternal character by allowing evil to continue.

He cares about moral evils, about the crimes that we human creatures commit.

The standard explanation of such moral evils is that they are the unfortunate consequence of human freedom.

In the face of a reality that matters deeply to us, and with full recognition of its horrible moral evil, we find ourselves impotent, and we can not even take satisfaction in the purity of our own motives and acts.

There is reason to believe that the conceivability of evil, perhaps especially natural evil but also moral evil, impugns the classical doctrine of divine power and thereby shows that doctrine to be defective.

A Philosophy for Children lesson focused on moral evil and the role and responsibility of humans as the primary cause of suffering.

This PPT takes a look at moral evil and natural evil, and the problem of evil.

As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

This question of the physical evil in the world leads us naturally on to the question of moral evil, which poses at least as difficult a question, even though it is sometimes argued that they are but different manifestations of the same thing.

Lewis was aware, of course, that the presence of natural and moral evil in the world makes governance by absolute goodness seem questionable at best.

The «higher» happiness is moral happiness and the causes of suffering are moral evils.

«On atheism, moral goodness and moral evil are whatever you want them to be.

What motivated these German anti-Nazis to resist the powerful Hitler regime is an important object lesson for more precisely locating the roots of the moral evil of Nazism by understanding the source of its antitheses (malum privatio boni est).

The central claim is made that moral evil... occurs because God — even though he is all - good and all - powerful — out of goodness decided to give freedom to human beings.

It can be plausibly argued that while it might appear that Plantinga's free - will defense is only relevant to moral evil, it actually has significant, necessary ramifications for how God's power can be conceived in relation to nature.

But if (5) is true, then it appears that God could have created a world inhabited by free creatures who perform moral good but no moral evil.

(6) God can not make a person (P) significantly free with respect to an action (A) and yet causally determine or bring it about that P go right with respect to A — i.e., to create creatures capable of moral good, God must create creatures capable of moral evil.

(11) Accordingly, it is possible that it was not within God's power to create a world containing moral good but no moral evil — i.e., (3) is possible (NN 184 - 89).

Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

Official Catholic teachings describe gay or lesbian orientation as «an objective disorder» and tell those who love their same - sex partners that they possess a «tendency... toward an intrinsic moral evil.»

The fact that moral evil is defeated by the spiritually healthy human being does not prove the non-existence of moral evil.

One can concede that the tendency of two - kingdoms theology to subordinate political concerns to a lesser realm made it easier than it should have been for Lutherans under Hitler to ignore or rationalize the regime's moral evils, but the Nazis» anti-Semitism and their exaltation of the State to idolatrous heights could find no justification in legitimate Lutheran doctrines of morality or church - state relations.

The creation of a large class of people outside the rule of law is a moral evil, most immediately damaging to the people in that class.

«Cardinal Ratzinger's 1986 letter to the Bishops of the Church, On the Pastoral Care of Hom os3 xual Persons, states that «although the particular inclination of the hom os3 xual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.»»