Sentences with phrase «moral rules of life»

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March for Life is not a religious group, but can similarly object on grounds of moral conscience, the federal ruling says.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism challenges the proscription - centered understanding of the moral life into which both Catholic traditionalists (who insist on hard - and - fast rules, and lots of them) and Catholic progressives (who want to loosen the rules, to the point where they often disappear) are stuck.

With Christianity, although the reincarnation aspect seems to have purposefully removed so that people do not become «lazy» in search of God in this life time, the practical and strict rules governing functions in this life (hard work to lead a prosperous life, improving moral values, etc) are appealing.

I would rather cultivate a strong intuitive sence of judgment and understand the root of morals from within that to live by a very limited and conflicted set of rules such as in the KUran or Bible and never cultivate a good sense of judjment or a moral sense.

Just by hinting at the existence of moral knowledge, Dawkins gives us reason to doubt that we actually do live in a world ruled by gangster genes.

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!

You can theorize all day long that we have other rules and laws... but for my moral guide in this life... Jesus principle of love will do just fine.

It is a collection of writings that was cobbled together by the Council of Nicea, written by multiple authors, containing collections of parables, stories, fables, myths, rules, laws, petty bigotry, tribal rivalries, lessons in life, morals, etc. that tell a story of a few small bands of nomadic middle easterners.

Nonetheless, the Justices gravely declared that «the character of a nation of people who aspire to live according to the rule of law» is ultimately to be measured by the people's willingness to put aside their deeply held moral and religious views and accept the Court's pronouncements on this and other divisive questions.

But so long as we are not in this state of perfection we have to live by the rational elaboration of moral principles, and by specific moral and legal rules: «Thou shalt not kill.»

Millions of lives depend upon it, our moral self - respect depends upon it, our constitutional order depends upon it, the rule of law depends upon it.

Mores and morals, laws and rules, religions and rituals, have all come into being in the course of human history to interpret the meaning of life and to guide behavior.

The traditional moral code generally undergirds wholeness, freedom, and being, but not always, and when it doesn't, the quest for wholeness has come to take priority for me over the rules of behavior, at least as I deal with the lives of other people.

Problem is, a set of dogmatic rules leaves people weak, rigid, and not apt to change, and most people don't actually follow a moral system in their day to day lives, but proclaim «jesus is the chosen one» «prasie allah» etc..

In this age of moral relativity, when relationships seem to be so easily trivialized and the impoverishment of other people is so easily neglected, it seems necessary to hear the Word of God from James, who chastises us for not living by the rules of right conduct.

But just as there is no logical meaning of life, there is no logical reason to have one set of internal moral rules or another.

And Trilling's moral criticism of some of the internal rules of the second environment — his attack on the over-valuation of literature and criticism and on alienation and despair as the artist's only gift to the moral life — parallels some of Bellow's recent concerns.

The method gave rise to the couplet: Litera gesta docet, Quid credas allegoria / Moralis quid agas, Quo tendas anagogia (which freely translates as: «The literal teaches what God and our ancestors did; the allegory is where our faith and belief is hid / The moral meaning gives us the rule of daily life; the anagogy [or mystical interpretation] shows us where we end our strife»).

I am sorry that i can not follow Bertrand intellectual rule, since everyone lives on their own beliefs attached to the facts and being an AFC reader and Arsenal supporter, i always love to be part of the emotions without any hatred, following the moral rule.

One has NO moral leg to stand upon, within the context of marriage, where each spouse is to be the SOLE SUPPLIER of intimacy and where each is expected to labor under the rules of sexual fidelity FOR LIFE - to insist upon chastity for the other spouse.

When your child understands the underlying safety concerns, health hazards, moral issues, or social reasons behind your rules, he'll develop a better understanding of life.

In contrast, deontological approaches focus on moral rules and ideas of rights and duties, such that certain things (like killing an innocent person) are wrong even if they maximize good outcomes (like saving extra lives).

There are legions of maxims in the living lore of our common culture, and many, like the Golden Rule, bear a moral message: «Two wrongs don't make a right» (ancient Scots); «You are only as good as your word» (early American); «Honesty is the best policy» (Cervantes, Ben Franklin); «It's better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness» (old Chinese proverb).

In addition to revealing how and why morality can be compromised within a highly bureaucratic environment, the emphasis on gameplay mechanics in Papers, Please ends up reminding us that, in real life, moral predicaments often arise as a byproduct of our engagement in a system of rules which define the particular environment we are immersed in, and dictate exactly how we can and can not act within it.

I first realised that the US was living beyond its means during the Clinton years and the enactment of the «ninja» Housing rules which turned the notion of «moral hazard» on its head.

I'm a big believer in the philosophy that the same rules of decency and virtue will help you succeed in the legal and blog world just as much as they do in life - we aren't talking about a moral dress code like that imposed by California for its employees, but instead 12 virtues that will make our world a better place to live.