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...Ramsey and others have noted, death is a dread enemy to Christians, but it is not ultimately evil. In John Donne's words, "One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,/ And death shall be no more, death thou shalt...
...motive which, like it or not, is a powerful human drive. To many idealists the primacy of the profit motive has long seemed to be a sanctification of selfishness that produces a brutalizing, beggar-thy-neighbor society. Victorian Moralist John Ruskin denounced "the deliberate blasphemy of Adam Smith: Thou shalt hate the Lord thy God, damn His laws, and covet thy neighbour's goods...
Though that phrasing is Presbyterian, all Christian denominations believe that suicide violates God's commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." Last week, however, the New York Times revealed that one of the world's pre-eminent Presbyterians, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, 77, and his wife Elizabeth, 80, had carried out a suicide pact in January. The retired president of New York's Union Theological Seminary and Mrs. Van Dusen took overdoses of sleeping pills in their Princeton, N.J., home. She died quickly, but he vomited up the pills, was found and taken to a hospital, where...
Situation ethics preaches against moral absolutes. When facing a choice for which more rigid codes offer an automatic answer (thou shalt not steal), a follower of situation ethics might decide upon reflection that breaking a literal rule would serve a higher moral purpose than observing it. Hence disclosing Government secrets, as in the Pentagon-papers case, might be justified by arguing that the act heightened opposition to an evil...
McLaughlin also adjudged Nixon's profanity a valuable form of emotional release with "no moral meaning." In a press conference, Cleary said that he could not endorse that view: "I would be standing up against Moses if I did ... 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain...