Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were drawn directly from Scripture. Friends of both men say Clinton, who lost his father to a car accident before he was born, was drawn to him for his paternal and nonjudgmental counsel. Vaught, who died of bone cancer three years ago, helped Clinton reconcile the conflict between his pious instincts and his political ones on two major positions -- his defense of the death penalty and abortion rights. According to Vaught's son Carl, the Governor summoned the minister for breakfast one morning to discuss the morality of capital punishment. Vaught argued that in its Hebrew translation, the Sixth Commandment...
...Discourses to Livy, Machiavelli points out that he lives in a secular, not a pious world. Machiavelli's observation still holds true today. But if the rights of the pious can be overturned at anyone's whim, the goal of increasing moral consciousness seems less attainable than ever...
Acevedo notes that the pope has been "revered since Christ made the apostle Peter the first pope almost two thousand years ago." Revered by whom? The countless millions of Muslims, Jews and Protestants slaughtered by and in the name of the Catholic Church? Or the pious Catholics who were bullied into donating huge sums to the church to fund the lavish lifestyles of the clergy? While these were not the Pope's personal doings, his failure to stop them did not earn him the reverence of the sufferers...
...course of fiscal discipline lasting eight or 10 or 15 years? A mere five years is longer than a presidential term. This means that even a five-year deadline imposes no real political accountability. In our political system, a promise to diet over five years is barely a pious wish. A promise to diet over a longer period isn't even that...
Surely the Lord shall visit the pious and shall call the righteous by name. His spirit shall hover over the poor; by his strength he shall renew the faithful. He shall glorify the pious upon the throne of the eternal kingdom. He shall release the captives, restore sight to the blind, make straight those who are bent double . . . He shall heal the wounded, resurrect the dead, preach glad tidings to the poor...