Sentences with phrase «moral judgment did»

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How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Yet we do not go to cancer wards preaching to the victims of lung cancer about their sinful lifestyles... Could it be that the weight of our moral judgments is clouded by the fact that a lot of conservatives smoke (smoking can even cause harm to nonsmokers who are unwilling breathers of the cancer - causing substance)?

I don't have the right to impose my preferences or moral judgments on them.»

History provides the moral judgment, and we do not have to be theologians engaged in scriptural debates to point people to the judgment rendered by history... Elaine

Atheist morality is without any objective basis and, if followed with integrity, doesn't allow them to act against others who act contrary to their moral system (as they insist that each subjective moral judgment is equal in value, all being based purely on individual feelings).

But if God does not exist, then neither do absolute values, and one should not issue moral judgments as though they do.

The Christian life is not about tolerance... but truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and speak the truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can not do that in this society in the midst of moral decay.

I don't think there has been enough information here to give a judgment on Joe Paterno based on logic just on emotional hype and moral holier - than - thou speculation.

And yet we don't seem to know why or how this moral judgment can be justified.

My ultimate standard of moral judgment is found when I face the questions: Does this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involDoes this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involdoes it bring death to the persons involved?

It is important as far as possible to remove temptation by changes in the situation that surrounds us, to develop strength of will and clearness of moral judgment through any help other people can give us, to utilize whatever inner resources we have for doing right.

I do not suggest that pastors of the church should not offer moral judgments on human activities.

Though our moral philosophers have differed in many details, especially in regard to the sources of moral judgment, they have agreed amazingly in regard to what men ought to do.

What if a member of an academic department has simply done what I have done» given public testimony, or published a moral judgment on gay marriage?

But it does provide an ordered framework within which we can exercise our capacity for moral judgment.

But more important is the question of what basis there is for distinguishing «false» transcendence from «true» except, as the authors finally do, by reference to the realm of ordinary moral judgment and their own collective and informed insight.

So, though I believe that the primary note in Jesus, understanding of the kingdom was the rule of God with a moral and spiritual message of the judgment, yet the loving kindness of God and of God's call to faithful obedience in all things, I do not believe that this prophetic note makes it necessary to reject wholly the apocalyptic.

As to your claim about the keys being used to determine moral right and wrong, I don't see that anywhere in Matthew 16 or Isaiah 22, and although the Jewish people may have understood this as referring to such judgments, they understood then (and even today) that moral judgments are made by God alone and through a proper understanding of what God has said in Scripture.

It is my belief that to some extent he did share it, though he transformed it by an emphasis on the mercy as well as the judgment of God and on the love of God and neighbor as the criterion for God's moral demands.

But this does not mean that there is no place for the kind of moral judgment that is relevant to mature experience and that makes men uneasy, more fully aware of the consequences of their decisions, more sensitive to the dark side of their culture.

On what higher moral sense do you base your judgment?

As long as human beings are capable of moral judgment we will be sorting through what people, including Pius XII, could have done and should have done in a time when the lights of decency were largely extinguished.

In 16:24 - 27, the future judgment that involves «repaying everyone for what has been done» is related to the moral demands placed on Christ's followers.

The immediate take - away that the American democratic experiment is in deep trouble — and that trouble has something to do with moral judgment.

Intellectuals do not have better moral judgment than people with little or no education, they do not live more wisely, they are certainly not more compassionate, they have not fewer but different superstitions, and they are capable of the most mindless fanaticisms.

If we are soon to die, or if we believe a day of judgment to be near at hand, how quickly do we put our moral house in order — we do not see how sin can evermore exert temptation over us!

Hardness of heart is not the same thing as rejection, and has nothing whatsoever to do with a moral judgment.

It is clear that moral judgment and censure come easier to us if we do not have great breadth of feeling.

Morality does not rule out feeling — on a human level moral judgment is simply logically in a different category than ordinary feeling.

In so doing, it keeps the promise of its subtitle - demolishing the «abuse excuse» - while defeating the promise of its title - defending «moral judgment.»

It has startled us in so many ways, and while some of us are quick to make moral and other judgments, I suspect that above all it is something that frustrates and overwhelms because it seems to go on no matter what we say or do, and because of the overpowering and almost inexorable way it has already swept and will continue to sweep over various parts of our lives.

Putting the moral judgment of «Suicide is the wrong choice» doesn't take a step toward understanding others.

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

This was no mean thing, and it's far more important than getting things right all the time, which isn't possible for anyone who risks serious political, moral, and theological judgments in times of upheaval and transformation, as Michael did.

But how does this result in distinctive moral perceptions and judgments?

Yet if we say that they have been «deceived» or are «mistaken» or have been indoctrinated by «false» ideas, then we are passing moral judgments, and the moment we do that we are implying that there are standards of good and evil.

And while two years ago Heyman wrote, «I'm not here to sit in moral judgment of another human being,» now he writes, «I didn't want to reward the cheats.»

It's actually quite similar to being a breastfeeding mom in a predominately bottle - feeding area of the country — whenever you're doing something that is challenging moral or social norms, you're going to feel a sense of judgment.»

Some people are morally opposed to termination of babies with Down syndrome, especially because the condition doesn't usually cause life - threatening health problems, and thus people's moral judgments on termination may extend to the amniocentesis test because the test can be a catalyst for people deciding to terminate their pregnancies.

I don't want the dialog of love between us two to go through the scrutiny of moral judgment everywhere I go.

Even though the disgust response arose for reasons that have little to do with morality, it seems to be pretty effective at shaping moral judgments.»

I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the USA.

How do we separate the self from the other, make moral judgments, or decide how much money to save for retirement?

«We make moral judgments so automatically that we don't really understand how they're formed,» he says.

Cause and effect, in this case, are separated by a chain of machines and electrons, so they do not trigger a snap moral judgment.

But the more we talked about our food choices, the more I wondered: When did eating become such a moral judgment call?

However, do nt let a few bad judgment calls stop you from watching it because it truly is a pretty good movie with some great revenge and morals hiding behind the cover and as strange and slow as it gets closes off with a pretty solid conclusion.

Like Kubrick, Field doesn't make any moral judgments about his characters, and his film remains stubbornly enigmatic.

Through the dialectic between the felt and the thought, Wheatley suggests that the moral positioning of the spectator incites moral thoughts, which do not embed prescribed moral judgments.

But I do not dispute the propriety of a legal regulator making those moral judgments.