This Hobby Lobby case isn't about morality like conservatives would have us believe.
Even you «moral discourse» types are talking about how we talk about morality -
not about morality itself.»
It's
not about morality in the medical profession vs. other professions.
Not exact matches
Religion seems to think that
morality can
not ever be achieved through any other means than by what some book says
about it.
everything you need to know
about morality you learned in kindergaten... except for
not screwing your neighbor's wife.
That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings
about sexual
morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is
not exactly news.
So why
not live how we want to, lets forget
about morality and being Godly.
We can also think
about morality more clearly because we are
not saddled with the faith process, where you do what you are told without thinking for yourself.
In short, you missed my whole point, which was that
morality is
not the only purpose for faith and, perhaps,
not even the most important thing
about faith.
Regardless, my initial sentence is
about the discussion on
morality, where you started again from scratch with on atheism as if we hadn't been discussing anything for the past hour or so.
It would seem you are making stuff up
about people you do
not understand... is that your christian «
morality» again?
Some people talk
about morality like if it weren't for Christianity there would be no morals.
Apparently, this absolute
morality argument isn't
about whether something is «good» or «bad» or causes pain or suffering, it's
about abdicating any personal responsibility in making such a decision.
That is
about sexual
morality,
not sexual orientation.
We may have no beliefs in common
about God, Bible, and Christian
morality, but what's a church for if we can't still have a good time together?
Morality is
about figuring out the best course of action when there may
not be an easy answer.
One of the biggest fallouts (to oversimplify) then was that conservatives cared
about personal
morality and
not involvement in social ethics / issues of evil, while liberals cared
about social ethics / issues but were seen as lax
about morality.
You always see at least two sides to everything, and you don't take a strong stand unless it's
about something that involves integrity or
morality.
The Bible doesn't record any instance where someone asked Jesus
about the
morality of a subprime loan or the best way to reduce the deficit.
We will
not... bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it,
about morality and immorality and marriage and the family.
BTW I asked you a question
about morality and why anything that doesn't cause needless harm to another should be considered immoral.
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation
about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»);
about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway;
about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin;
about how I need
not worry because «there is
not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea;
about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings;
about how my intuitive sense of love and
morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can
not trust it.
Oh John, you profess god's love from one side of your face while hating atheists from the other and then go so far as to question the
morality and credibility of people you don't even know and know even less
about.
Don't you think a minister, people who spend their whole lives thinking
about ethics and
morality, have something worthwhile to say on it?
They have questions they are desperate to ask their church leaders or friends, but somehow feel they can't; questions
about its reliability, its nature and its
morality especially around episodes such as those where God ordered the Israelites to obliterate their enemies.
For Whitehead, this importance is
not limited to issues of human
morality, although he is keenly concerned
about these.
The problem may
not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true
about Christian
morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.
This poll indicates that strong majorities of both Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics do
not often hear
about morality policy issues from clergy.
It is
not merely
about the balance between pastoralism and doctrine, but
about the entitlement of the Church to speak of
morality at all.
For all of their ingenuity and their (perhaps considerable) merits, in other words, these accounts seem
not to be talking
about the same sort of thing that we have all along understood «
morality» to be (or that we encounter when we feel ourselves subject to «moral» constraints).
With Michael Walzer, he would probably place it under the heading of a «culturally differentiated
morality,»
about which «consensus is
not necessary.»
once you concede that racism or any other major immorality could be deemed acceptable in the future, you are
not talking
about an objective basis for
morality — because it changes.
The genius of Rand is
not about how to run your lives (that's what
morality is for).
Morality isn't just
about WHAT is right and wrong... it is also
about WHY it is right and wrong and «because I said so» does
not answer that issue.
The question wasn't
about historical facts, it was
about whether or
not objective
morality actually exists.
Pope Francis is
not about ending Capitalism, but urging regulation and
morality, specifically protection and relief for the poor.
«Very rarely,» he continued, «did Jesus ever talk
about morality or social issues... Often, people want to talk
about behavior modification, and our church isn't
about that... We're
about soul transformation.»
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..
We're
not at liberty to change what the Bible says
about the
morality of gay sex.
Her thinking never toouches the real world, and that is a problem when the subject is
morality, which is what you actually do,
not some abstract concept you think
about.
While there is such a thing as Christian
morality, Christianity is
not primarily an ethical framework, but rather it is
about participating in the life of the Trinity.
We have come to understand that
morality is
about consideration for othersm
not about rigidly following a set of rules.
Unfortunately it doesn't espouse the same crap
morality of Atlas Shrugged, so I guess we'll
not be talking
about it.
They are
not only getting a * far * better academic education, they are also getting a far better moral education than can be had in a public school, where
morality may
not even be mentioned and there is little or no talk
about ethics, either.
She's
not being delusional — she's engaging in an imaginative exercise in order to express her own feelings and
morality about her son.
Traditionalists who like to see
morality as a series of rules with messages
about bending one's will creakingly into line with stern teachings will
not like this book very much — or, rather, they will like it, and they will know it makes sense, but they will try very hard to dislike it because it presents the Catholic and incarnational message in a John Paul II sort of way.
An image concerning sexual
morality is
not just
about the moral value of chastity in itself.
-LCB- No they didn't: only the atheist coalition was going on
about his views on sexual
morality Maybe Longley was, who knows?
Fourth, Matthew presents temptation
not as a private
morality game but as a contest
about the shape and nature of ministry.
(2) A plurality of responsible views are held in our society
about the
morality of abortion, and the state should
not force everyone to live by the standards of one segment of society.