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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.


Eric Alterman


#approaching #argued #assassinations #centuries #consensus

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.


Thomas Aquinas


#considers #contrary #god #mainly #moral

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.


Walter Kaufmann


#forthright #generally #indictment #injustice #job

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.


John Polkinghorne


#beginning #creation #doctrine #pay #science

The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval.


Wolfgang Koeppen


#moral #spitting #theologian #death

The mind becomes like that on which it feeds.


Elton Trueblood


#professor-emeritus #theologian #religion

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.


Nicholas Mosley


#easily #god #point #say #theologians

There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.


Godfried Danneels


#allows #always #appear #catholic #catholic faith

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.


H. L. Mencken


#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.


Johann Most


#assumes #conclusions #forth #god #idea






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