Sentences with phrase «of national morality»

«If the Chief of Army Staff does not deem it fit to resign forthwith President Buhari should not hesitate to remove him in the interest of national morality.»

It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.»

Not exact matches

In a 1985 essay on «Morality and Foreign Policy,» he casually asserted that the components of our national interest «have no moral quality.»

Church membership increased dramatically, particularly among Methodists and Baptists, whose belief in the possibility of moral perfection generated renewed interest in national morality.

«Most of the baptized have an image of the church that, on the one hand, is family friendly in its attitude, whilst at the same time considering her sexual morality to be unrealistic,» the German bishops said, according to National Catholic Reporter.

In the face of society's crumbling morality the National Church, divided against itself, had little to offer, and has clearly become part of the problem.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

He echoes George Washington's admonition: «Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.»

I think there is real force to the Zionist complaint that critics of Israel expect of Jews a greater national morality than they expect of themselves.

The Old Testament certainly contains abundant illustrations of national actions that fall below the ordinary level of individual morality.

Instead of an impossible self - denial we set up a practicable self - restraint; instead of active self - sacrificial good will we set up a reasonable disinterestedness and are content if we hold self - love or national or class self - interest within moderate bounds; instead of an impossible purity, charity, and honesty of heart we set up a decent morality.

For better or worse, we find ourselves at a moment when considerable national attention is being given to the morality of capital punishment, and readers of First Things in recent months have also been invited to reflect upon the issue in an essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles (April) and in a later exchange between Dulles and his critics (August / September).

Running for president, both Pat Robertson and Joe Lieberman quoted, more or less accurately, George Washington's claim that «reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.»

As national morality continues to decline (thanks to the left and the failure of evangelicals) and socialist government grows we can expect more meaningless violence and more calls to disarm Americans of effective weaponry by those who trust in (or run) government.

Reston suggests his basic understanding of the relation between national morality and religion in these words:

Wilsonian morality which equated peace and a good international society with democracy and national self - determination was rather too simple to meet the harsh necessities, for example, of a viable economy in Central Europe.

... reason and experience both forbid us expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

that is philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can through inter-faith rational discourse create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

In this vision of «a Christian America» the church serves as a source of moral inspiration that will ensure national morality, power, and success by maintaining the stability of families.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

In a week in which Englandâ $ ™ s cricketers have also being demonstrating that there is something amiss in a national sporting culture that lauds modest success far too easily and produces too many vain young men who lack mental resilience when the going gets tough, West Hamâ $ ™ s woes have been the stuff of dreams for journalists casting around for a morality script.

As Coontz tartly observes, «Twenty - five percent of the people polled in a recent national inquiry into American morality said that for $ 10 million they would abandon their entire family; a large number of people are evidently willing to do the same thing for free.»

Any defamation of the country and the nation, any instigation to a war of aggression, to national, racial, class or religious hatred, any incitement to discrimination, territorial separatism, or public violence, as well as any obscene conduct contrary to morality shall be prohibited by law.

Today we inhabit a society in which prejudice, fear and hatred of foreigners increasingly erodes logic, morality and even national self - interest; where MPs are targeted; where judges are described as enemies of the people, where a foreign woman who insists on the primacy of parliament is subject to racist abuse and rape and death threats, where you can be verbally and physically attacked if you speak a foreign language in the street or simply happen to look foreign.

The new paper uses data from the 2006 — 2014 General Social Survey, a regular poll that asks thousands of Americans for their opinions on everything from national spending priorities to morality.

There's an election coming up, and he's about to star on the National Theatre stage in «Everyman», a fifteenth - century morality play about man's powerlessness in the face of death.

Brown's follow - up techno - thriller, Deception Point, centered on similar issues of morality in politics, national security, and classified technology.

And so national ghg emissions reductions based on ethics and justice are both required on the basis of morality and are urgently practically needed.

Back in the day, it used to be claimed as one of the glories of the Liberal and National Parties that their MPs had freedom to vote as they chose, while Labor MPs were bound by Caucus solidarity, except in the case of an explicit «conscience vote», which has been traditionally confined to issues of (sexual) morality.

Family law is now entwined with national debates over the structure of family, gender bias and morality.

Only the content Morality in Media (now known as National Center on Sexual Exploitation, a key proponent of FOSTA - SESTA) doesn't like.