Sentences with phrase «more than a morality»

But if we take out the story of Joseph in Potiphar's house we lose something more than a morality play.

Not exact matches

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

My comments are more for those who think they know more on morality and faith than the Church Jesus started 2012 years ago.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

This is to say that morality is more important than politics as a keeper of social harmony, and that the quality of a population matters more than political or economic structures.

The fact that there are both does NOT make morality relative, it means that one needs to know more than simply that a death of one person occurred at the hands of another person to judge the morality.

While morality is important, faith is more about relationship with God than it is to morality per se.

Morality has an objective aspect but that objective quality is to be measured against the world God created more so than any collection of inspired writings.

Reaching out in mercy to someone with AIDS implies more about the faith of the church than it does about the morality or immorality of the sufferer.

An externally imposed morality is nothing more than mental slavery.

Blessed: «You have done nothing to demonstrate your religious morality actually comes from a god and is not actually anything more than the subjective arbitrary morality of your religion's forefathers attributed to your (their) «god».»

Following the rules of some god is not practicing morality, it is nothing more than obedience.

You have done nothing to demonstrate your religious morality actually comes from a god and is not actually anything more than the subjective arbitrary morality of your religion's forefathers attributed to your (their) «god».

If you hear someone talking about sin they are more likely talking about big problems like environmental degradation, economic justice, and war, than about issues of personal morality like adultery or gluttony.

This has led some Lutheran theologians to the conclusion that Christian morality can be little more than a vague Interimsethik (open - ended decision - making between Pentecost and the last judgment).

And they are slightly more supportive than their elders of government efforts to protect morality...» Back in March of this year, The Pew Forum made news when it reported that 70 % of millennials are in favor of same - sex marriage.

Why is Christian morality more right than any other religion's morality, or our atheistic morality?

A society not rooted in God, trapped in social relativism where, as Hume put it, «morality is more properly felt than judged of», readily collapses into emotivism; the looter claims his opinion carries as much weight as the victim's.

What came of it was an orthodoxy, a statism, more rigorous and coercive than the one it displaced; a morality just as hypocritical as the old one, a social conformism just as blind, and a dictatorship that fooled the people with its lies.

6) ``... there is no objective morality... On atheism, no one is more morally right or wrong than the next person.

Nature did not «intend» to create any particular type of morality, any more than nature intended to create one certain length of finch beak.

For the full story of Antonio Montesino reads more like a medieval morality play than the dawn of pan-human solidarity.

But, if a real morality involves self - determination, the individual is actually behaving less morally rather than more so.

There are more complex, more important human questions than have been addressed by either the stern denunciations of divorce or the accommodating «cheap grace» efforts to bless divorce — or by the heralding of divorce as a liberation from outmoded bourgeois morality.

I can guarentee I love and respect more Christians than you do atheists, with out a doubt... so just shut it with the fake morality

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

This piece reads much more like an opinion piece on God's morality than an explanation of why God flooded the Earth.

You will see that morality and kindness are not rooted in belief, it's much deeper and more profound than that.

It lets them think that their morality is somehow less provincial and more accessible to others than if it referred explicitly to the data of Christian faith, including the words and work of Jesus.

It's nothing more than folk tales of desert dwellers and their sense of morality.

The moral directorship of the past was perhaps more effective than any consensus of today in the realm of personal morality; but even that is far from clear, given the bitter divisions in the 19th century over temperance, chastity, sabbatarianism and a dozen other moral issues.

they can be more moral than you are the italian mafia were and are some of the largest donors to the catholic church ~ certianily no morality there all the «christian» preachers who sodomize young men, cavort with wh0res, steal all the manna ~ high morals because they are forgiven ~ again and again and again and again... ad naseumn....

The Talmud is, in a sense, the business record of the House of Israel, extending over a period of about eight centuries, from 300 B.C.E. to 475 C.E. Much of it is concerned with the business of business or legal relationships, leading again to the charge that Jews are more concerned with mundane matters than they are with morality, more concerned with letter than spirit.

Because the standard model of morality focuses on the moment of decision, it sometimes makes the moral dimension of our lives sound far more exciting and dramatic than it really is.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

Morality is nothing more than a value judgment on a set of facts — eg. g should gay marriage be allowed, is the death penalty ever justified etc..

One's own enjoyment in the present usually contributes more to the enjoyment of others than does a highly calculating morality.

It is simple confusion to think otherwise, and Johnson's recent effort (see FT January) to construe presumption - against in terms of worries about the inherent morality of war, or about the nature of prima facie duties, amounts to nothing more than the blowing of thick clouds of smoke.

He refers, with more than a little disdain, to those of us who «still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti-individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits» best fulfill Christian morality.

Perhaps they do more actions YOU consider sins, but their overall morality is generally better than that of the typical christian.

Before you say another word, think for a minute about how members of your faith continuously push for legislation to force others to your way of life, force your morality, spark witch hunts for radicalized members of other religions even though it's more often than not white guys gunning down crowds in schools, theatres, grocery store parking lots, etc..

Just as Dred Scott forced a southern proslavery position on the nation, Roe is nothing more than the Supreme Court's imposition of the morality of our cultural elites.

If we are more valuable to God than other creatures, it is because rationality and morality make us capable of a love more like God's own love than any other creature.

Because morality is relative, adhering to one particular religion, or no religion at all, doesn't make one any more or less «right», or «moral», than an adherant to any other.

Indeed, the Dialectic of practical reason adds nothing to the principle of morality, assumed to be defined by the formal imperative; nor does it add anything more to our knowledge of our duty than the Dialectic of pure reason adds to our knowledge of the world.

Churches were full; Christian festivals dominated the calendar; there was strict Sabbath observance; and the various patterns of Christian morality were enforced by peer pressure, even more than they were by law or from the pulpit.

Many people, I am convinced, still regard the higher morality which they look for and advocate as no more than a sort of compensation or external counter-balance, to be adroitly applied to the human machine from outside in order to off - set the overflow of Matter within it.

I explain that 90 % of my «morality» is probably identical to theirs and that, to the extent we differ, I am probably more «live and let live» than they are.

Although Pope John Paul II has made clear his disagreement with the revolutionary approach of liberation theologians, Catholic social teaching is more radical than the popular opinion of the present Pope, based on his views about birth control and sexual morality, might suggest.

Sounds more like they are confused than anything else, and morality is meaningless as it can change at the drop of the hat.