Word: moralizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have no quarrel with people who avoid eating particular or all meats because of religious or moral reasons--vegetarians, Buddhists, et al. For that matter, I'm willing to concede that taste is subjective enough that people may just not like the taste of organ meat. My issue is with those people who pull faces at eating certain parts out of some false notion of intrinsic 'uncleanliness,' and, worse than that, to consider the very act of eating offal beyond their ken, beyond their realm of comprehension. I call this the 'how could you eat those parts?' school of thought...
...After reading your article on day-traders I got the impression that most anybody could strike it rich with the aid of Harvard's high-speed Internet connection. After selling my Moral Reasoning textbooks and all of my clothing on EBay, I entered the financial arena in a big way. In one day, I grossed over 6000 percent, just as advertised. Thanks...
...sounded so simple and elegant and inevitable. And yet there was almost nothing simple about the trip as it played out, because the Pope is not just a religious pilgrim. He is one of the world's great moral authorities, whose support or very presence (or even the brush of his lips on a proffered pot of soil as he visits a new land) can lend validity to states, policies and causes. Moreover, he heads an entity with its own foreign policy goals: from a desire to protect the religious sites and fast-vanishing Christians of the Holy Land...
...Vashem today for the silence of Pope Pius XII and the institutional church during the Holocaust." Baum added that "it is sometimes forgotten that the Vatican bears no direct responsibility for the Holocaust." Although the church had been "cruelly delinquent" in its response to the horror, "that moral failure, at least, the Pope's words today have done much to remedy." Perhaps most important, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose voice cracked as he talked of grandparents murdered at Treblinka, movingly hailed the Pope's statements, in effect accepting them as an apology...
AWARDED. To FREEMAN DYSON, 76, agnostic physicist-ethicist, the Templeton Prize in religion; in New York City. He won for advocating a fusion of moral values with science...