Word: moralizers
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...proper role of religion to promote continual and intensive moral introspection, whether in suffering or pleasure, in poverty or prosperity. It is legitimate and appropriate for clergy to ask ourselves and our congregants to search our ways and reconsider our deeds in the face of tragedy, to ask each of us to search for the extent of our own culpability for the creation of a world society in which evil flourishes...
...Moral relativism is at least as dangerous as moral absolutism. Edmund Burke said “All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” I would rephrase: “All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do less than everything.” It is essential to realize that human beings who do nothing in the face of evil are not good; they are accomplices and enablers...
Never would Fo subjugate his work, though, to the blunt expression of such a moral message—no one knows better than a jester that to preach is to lose one’s audience. His worldview is made clear, rather, by the aesthetic that permeates his work...
...idea of objective news coverage doesn’t come from authority alone, or from journalists’ profound moral superiority over the rest of us. Rather, it comes from accountability and the opportunity for false information to be corrected elsewhere, something lacking in countries without a free press; from the comparison of information from different sources with different interests; from requiring extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims; from providing a forum for criticism and being willing to accept...
...must begin to consider what our collective rage against terrorism is doing to the moral fabric of this country. Our president has vowed revenge against the perpetrators of last Tuesday’s vicious crimes. He has promised that “we’ll smoke them out of their holes.” But who is “them”? Is it Osama bin Laden and his network of fanatics? Is it the Taliban? Does it include every innocent civilian living in Afghanistan, Sudan or wherever Osama bin Laden is hiding? Does “them?...