President James E. Faust has noted that in contrast to earlier, God-fearing times' a new civil religion seems to be developing in America. He said The civil religion I refer to is a secular religion. It has no moral absolutes. It is nondenominational. It is non-theistic. It is politically focused. It is antagonistic to religion. It rejects the historic religious traditions of America. It feels strange. If this trend continues, non-belief will be more honored than belief. While all beliefs must be protected, are atheism, agnosticism, cynicism, and moral relativism to be more safeguarded and valued than Christianity, Judaism, and the tenets of Islam, which hold that there is a Supreme Being and that mortals are accountable to him If so, this would, in my opinion, place America in great moral jeopardy.
Quotes about absolutes (15 Quotes)
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
It is my belief that there are 'absolutes' in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be 'absolutes.'
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally,who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
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There need to be some absolutes in life.
About time, and changing his clock on October 28, 1962, he wrote 'Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all. All we can do with the astronomical absolutes of time is note them, divide them as we please, and liv.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.