Sentences with phrase «personal immorality»

The choice was between a man of personal immorality and public service integrity (Grover Cleveland) and one of a model family man guilty of using public office for personal gain (James G. Blaine).

Highlighting reports that at least 40 Iraqi women have been executed for personal immorality, Mr Cable asked if 173 British troops had died to transfer power from the «fascist regime of Saddam Hussein to the terror of the fascist militia that run the streets of Basra».

The alleged holiness of a person or a church is then measured by its discontinuity with the world — particularly, in North American Christian history, by its incessant testimony to worldly immorality, personal immorality.

You don't believe in God only so that you can continue your personal immorality without the thought of justice; you are bullying Christians.

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The excuse of «personal freedom» often results in decadence, selfishness, greed, gluttony, self - centeredness, sexual - immorality, misuse of money, mistreatment of others, and a wide variety of other sins of the flesh (see The Myth of a Christian Religion, p. 85).

He damns the religious structure in which the fervent hymns of praise and the devout symbols of dedication were matched by a fervent immorality and a devout pursuit of vanity; in which Yahwism was enthusiastically endorsed at the sanctuaries but — as Amos saw the Yahweh faith — blatantly violated in business, domestic, and personal relationships.

«Public Morals» is set in 1960's New York City, and the series follows the officers in the New York Police Department's Public Morals Division, who struggle with the city's immorality while also trying to manage their personal lives as Irish - Americans.