Sentences with phrase «moral person then»

He'd rather believe in God while living on earth, being a good and moral person then die and found out there was no God, than to not believe there is a God, do whatever he pleased, to die and find out there is a God.

Not exact matches

I've had dealings since then with some of the decision - makers behind the infamous attack ad that mocked Chrétien's facial paralysis; they are intelligent, reasonable and moral people.

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

A better strategy would be to point out how one doesn't need religion to be a moral person, and then demonstrate how some of the people that claim to be a beacon for religious zealots (the GOP) practice an existence devoid of morality.

Well, I guess atheists lose, then, as they all lazily sit back, drink alcohol, smoke weed, and bully people of religion, calling them hypocrites while not showing their own moral standards so that their own hypocrisy can be judged.

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

If owning a person is not moral, then whether it's voluntary or not is irrelevant.

If owning another person is immoral, then making provisions and instructions on owning another person is not moral.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

If you wish to think that fighting over the basic rights of people and not providing life sustaining medical care to all is moral, then your definition of moral is very screwed up.

Biola then issued a «statement on human sexuality» saying, «God's design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy between two person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.»

Incorrect Answers Question: If taxes equal government spending, then: Your Answer: government debt is zero Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average Question: The Puritans: Your Answer: opposed all wars on moral grounds Correct Answer: stressed the sinfulness of all humanity

In the first instance, there are those who argue that since all persons have a fundamental spiritual or moral equality, then that equality ought to extend to all social, economic and political relationships in which they find themselves.

And, as Smith notes, a problem with mere prudentialism is that its adoption is imprudent «because if people realize that the point of «morality» is really to get what we want, then people will lose their incentive to respect the moral - prudential imperatives that prudence itself imposes whenever those imperatives seem to impede us from getting what we want.»

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

If to be a person in the fullest sense is to be conscious, rational, and have a moral sense, then a fetus is, at best, a probability of a person, hence those who equate abortion with murder are engaging in demagoguery.

And if he chose to drown all of humanity, including infants and children, except 8 people, though he apparently didn't realize at the time that his mass slaughter would not change humanity's ways, then, in your eyes, that is a moral act.

If you're supporting this then you're not a moral person!!!

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.

If this is true, then only the vision of the eschatological banquet could be an image of the good, whereas the image of dying for the other — though it is the advent of the good in fallen time — can not itself be the final good, without once more subordinating the person to an impersonal totality, in this case an abstract moral principle.

Our protest against «the naked public square» was then a distinctly minority position, whereas today there is a much more widespread recognition that church - state jurisprudence is a shambles, and that the democratic process requires the vigorous engagement of the religiously based moral convictions of the American people.

For Speaker Boehner to claim cutting the debt is a «moral» imperative and then attempt to do so by cutting food aid for children while giving millionaires tax breaks... I think Matthew 15:8 sums it up nicely: «This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.»

If you were EVIL and you wanted to dominate people, then destroying their morals would be the first step.

The debate helps us to see, then, that the Catholic tradition is rich, human, and capable of being relevant to help gay and lesbian persons find moral ways of living out their lives and the ways they are called to love.

But if those rights become contingent on poor people's having the same moral virtues as the «respectable» middle class, then departures from these traits provide a way of avoiding responsibility.

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?

Social interactions will then be regulated by a less oppressive and backward moral code, one that is truly objective, democratic and fair to all people.

Organs of Presbyterian polity would then work in concert, over time, to engage the whole people of God in substantive matters of faith and morals before the church.

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

If you are in a rubber life raft and survival of the group is paramount, then it would be completely moral to throw the guy overboard who keeps attempting to pop the raft and drown us all, and not a single other person in the raft would object for they would understand that that guy must have lost use of his senses and had abandoned his humanity.

For them the world at base is indeed really ideal, one body, as it were; evil is the superimposition by selfish desires of feelings and actions that pervert the ideal harmony.15 The bulk of the moral program then is the elimination of selfish desires so that the original clear character will shine through, or so that love of the people will be fulfilled, with all that means for the ordering of the family, economy, and state.

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

Perhaps, though, an even greater moral and civil anarchy would have resulted than people were then already experiencing.

I agree with you Tim, the premise of the article leads one to believe that because LDS has a big accredited university with deep theological minds and some leader of a big Christian seminary, again a deep theological mind, head knowledge not heart knowledge, that Mormonism should be recognized as a stream of Christianity.How Mormons differ is how they relate to Christ and the Holy Spirit.Only people who have encountered Jesus and thus a changed life, can be called an evangelical.Mormnism is man made religion.The Holy Spirit always points people to Jesus, not another man - Joseph Smith.Great moral people, who do lots of good and build beautiful tabernacles, but then again the Pharisees did too.

Atheists have to stop saying they are moral & they are logical & then claiming people who disagree are wrong.

Then, «the power and divine virtue of Christian wisdom had diffused itself throughout the laws, institutions, and morals of the people, permeating all ranks and relations of civil society.»

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

If basic spiritual, moral, and religious matters are not included in the primary understanding of why people do what they do, why civilizations follow the courses they follow, and why cultures get shaped the way they do get shaped, then something essential about the human condition is falsified.

Thus possessed of their identity, knowing themselves to be in but definitely not of the academy, these biblical people might then become one community of ongoing spiritual energy and moral insight for all those who are working to expose the academy's covert operative values and searching for new academic purpose.

«If we want them to become moral people, as opposed to people who merely do what they're told, then they have to be given the chance to construct such concepts as fairness or courage for themselves.

If Amy and people like her are exemplars of the moral good that can come from markets, then there needs to be regulation and intervention to prevent them being systematically put out of work by much larger companies that can afford to underprice local markets.

This image is a great way to muddy the moral waters and in the process soothe the concerns of people who'd rather this incident not linger in the public mind, since if Martin is not a perfect angel, then his killing is somehow not as much of a problem, regardless of the circumstances.

«I don't think it is moral to accept land from Donald Trump - or from anyone - with an agreed upon deal for the donor's name to remain on the 435 acres of parkland that he gave, and then to reject and erase the name of the person who gave it.»

And if we think that capabilities and freedom are important then, depending on some other moral thoughts in the area, we may well be quite concerned about inequality in capabilities and freedom between persons.

• Perhaps Mandelson's cry of anguish expresses his fear that if Miliband is right on this then New Labour's backside - licking of big corporations might eventually come to be viewed as most people now view its insistence that Britain be involved in Iraq — a moral outrage and a gross disservice to the British people that New Labour were elected to serve.

We then asked whether people who made either rule - based or cost / benefit moral judgments were preferred as social partners.

The participants then had to make a hiring recommendation for someone who was a former employee of the organization, and there was no indication that the person worked directly with the moral transgressor.

You might be able to get better results during calorie restriction by joining a group of like - minded people for moral support (i.e. something like Weight Watchers), but even then the average total weight loss after 12 months is perhaps around 5 - 10 lbs, and is likely to be regained over time.

Yes, arts learning may have social and moral and professional benefits, but if people don't value the materials of the fields themselves — if they can't say that if High School X doesn't acquaint students with Renaissance painting, classical music, and modern dance, its graduates will be undereducated — then arts educators lose in the competition for funds and hours in the day.

Let there be no question, then: educators, parents, and other adults are desperately needed to offer guidance, to act as models (we hope), to pose challenges that promote moral growth, and to help children understand the effects of their actions on other people, thereby tapping and nurturing a concern for others that is present in children from a very young age.