Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
“Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.”
The World Motivation
Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
“Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.”
Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.