Word: moralizers
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...Religion is about where we derive our moral truths and the meaning of it all, and science is about the factual world as best as we can grasp it, they’re just different things, you can’t translate one into the other. Americans get so hung up on religion...Something like 80% of Americans testify that their conventional form of belief in a supreme being is essential to their view of life. I guess if that’s what they say, that’s what they believe...
...Reilly went on to link this independence with what he termed Clinton’s strong advocacy of “moral relativism” in the White House. But O’Reilly questioned this so-called “moral relativism”—contrasting it with the leadership style of President Bush...
Dioceses lapsed into a pattern of denial and deception. They treated sexual pathology as a moral failure and crime as a religious matter. The Roman Catholic Church is a stern hierarchy that has always kept its deliberations secret, policed itself and issued orders from the top. An obedient priest moves up in power by keeping his head down, winning rewards for bureaucratic skills and strict orthodoxy. When Cardinals are created, they take a vow before the Pope to "keep in confidence anything that, if revealed, would cause a scandal or harm to the church." When it came to sex abuse...
...West Wing was Clinton-era wish fulfillment--that the White House could have a moral compass--the new series are post-Bush-vs.-Gore, post-9/11 wish fulfillment: that young people can love public service, that a divided government can set aside politics and that the CIA can get the bad guys...
Though skepticism may be an essential part of academic life, we err in asserting that it reigns sophisticated where the less suspicious nature stands simplistic. In “The Will to Believe” William James, himself no rube, wrote, “Moral skepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual skepticism can…The skeptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser. Omniscience only knows.” While it is our prerogative to believe in nothing before we believe in something that could...