Sentences with phrase «such evil acts»
God is not responsible for such evil acts.
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One can know that murder is wrong without commiting that evil act and having personal knowledge of such.
Like (Episcopalian) Joseph Fletcher, who taught Situation Ethics in the 1960s, the exhortation suggests that there are exceptions to every moral rule and that there is no such thing as an intrinsically evil act.
What is amazing to me as I read columns like this and stories that are sympathetic to killing disabled children and / or support eugenic infanticide, is that we once understood such acts of murder to be an unequivocal evil.
Some classical theists are now saying that natural evils — such as famines, floods, and earthquakes — are due to the constraints of any created world, not to acts of divine intervention.
But any attempt on the part of a British Christian to claim a share of responsibility for the Shoah would be, at best, a tasteless piece of play - acting; and at worst, what perverted desire to command good and evil, I wonder, might possibly motivate such a claim?
The claim that celibacy has helped cause sexual abuse is a claim that runs utterly contrary to the evidence, and unjustly moves responsibility for despicably evil acts away from the abusers, and onto some environmental condition such as the discipline of celibacy in a priestly life.
More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.
What is chosen therefore is one of those types of act which «in the Church's moral tradition have been termed «intrinsically evil» (intrinsice malum): they are such always and per se, in other words on account of their very object, and quite apart from the ulterior intentions of the one acting and the circumstances.»
He talks about the «goodness as we possess» (such as altruistic acts) and says that even if religion did no other harm, its carefully nurtured divisiveness is enough to make it «a significant force for evil in the world.»
Good / Evil are relative terms that glance over the complexity of such seemingly «evil» aEvil are relative terms that glance over the complexity of such seemingly «evil» aevil» acts.
The primary problem, then, is the problem of inducing sinful and complacent people to act responsibly to eliminate situations that cause such evil effects.
But (conjecture on my part) any moral standard acceptable to almost anyone would call such acts evil.
This is hardly an evil in Bergson's views given that the operation of such intellectual forces is also a condition for acting freely; in the complete sense.
Such action would have to be thought of as analogous to that of the angels, who so dispose of themselves in one act, that from the centre of their nature and freedom they are fixed and confirmed in good, or hardened in the evil they have chosen.
The resolution notes that in 1995, the SBC «repudiated «historic acts of evil, such as slavery,» and committed «to eradicate racism in all its forms from Southern Baptist life and ministry.
God could also mediate the free actions of such souls to one another, taking care to harmonize any potential conflicts by means of conceptual supplementation, thus overcoming any evil consequent upon the free actions of many actualities acting in concert.
The fifth trait follows from the above, for in all fantasy literature there is a keen recognition of forces of good and evil, a sense of right and wrong — but also a driving necessity to act on such recognition.
Finally, we wonder what Prof. Cole can possibly mean when he says that it is «a sad fact that Christians are always going to have to use violence» and yet also maintain that when just warriors use force justly, «such acts bear no stain of evil.»
Just soldiers and commanders are sorry that evil exists to such an extent that acts of force are necessary to bring about justice, but they are not sorry about their acts of force.
On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio between opportunities for good and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in fact is.
The reality of evil, antisocial acts is too impervious to our wishes for such a state of affairs to continue for long.
Every judgment of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
The perpetrators commit atrocities with such malevolence that even the most irreligious people familiar with their acts describe them as «unrestrained evil.»
Rom 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, Rom 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, Rom 1:31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; Rom 1:32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death.
«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders» money for such purposes; and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at in corrupt practices acts.
These examples are the low - hanging fruit on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so it is easy for both science and religion to pluck the ripe ones and declare with confidence that such acts as, say, lying, adultery and stealing are wrong because they destroy trust in human relationships that depend on truth telling, fidelity and respect for property.
Wario's greed pushes him to commit evil acts, such as the seizing of Mario's Castle.
Likewise for Metal Gear Solid's reams of recorded speech and the Resident Evil series» FMV, voice acting (such as it was), and pre-rendered backgrounds.
Wario's greed pushes him to commit evil acts, such as the seizing of Mario's Castle.
Similar to Resident Evil in so many ways such as combat, controls, puzzles, and even the corny, yet endearing, voice acting, Dino Crisis still sticks with me to this day.
A well - seasoned veteran to the voice acting world, Ellen McLain, the voice of GLaDOS, made her what she is, despite being «super likeable» as stated by the Valve staff who said that it was sometimes difficult to give her such evil lines to speak for GLaDOS.