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...In a morally troubled world, how powerful a hold does religion have? Are you confused about religious ambiguity, love of money, love of power, sexual immorality, art? Reading The Brass Bed and other Stories may help, then again it may just raise more questions....

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...he best foolishness". Morality itself is essence of this worldly life which results in inner peace & financial progress. What if one has to resort to immorality & dishonesty? One should heartily repent & ask for forgiveness for this grave fault from the Lord one believes in. Also, one should ask for strength to not repeat it again. Dadashri says," Follow complete morality,...

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...cond edition to be printed the following year. But by the third year, there began a growing criticism of the book and of Lewis mostly on the basis of immorality. In fact, the book caused such a scandal that Lewis published another version complete with redactions and entire rewrites so as to remove the shame it had brought upon his family and the political institution of w...

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...ero, Abraham Lincoln, read and enjoyed an early version of Leaves of Grass. Despite such high recommendations, Whitman faced charges of obscenity and immorality for his work, but this only led to increased popularity of the book. Whitman continually revised and republished Leaves of Grass throughout his lifetime, notably adding the “Drum-Taps” section after Lincoln’s assas...

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...hameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality. The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. Nowadays we do not seem to know that there is any other test of conduct except morality; and the result i...

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...ishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality. The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us...

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...which he was selected to preach to the Gentiles, for they can also be saved. Among other things, he urges the Ephesians to be humble, to avoid sexual immorality and foul speech, and to be united in Christ even though they are diverse in spiritual talents. He also gives advice to husbands and wives, children and fathers, and servants and masters. The letter concludes with a...

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... a poor but hard-working man, whose beloved daughter Meg is due to marry on New Year's Day. Trotty, who is appalled by newspaper reports of crime and immorality, is further depressed by his encounters with the rich and influential Alderman Cute and Sir Joseph Bowley, who make him feel that the poor have no right to exist in society, and his daughter has no right to marry. ...

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...e and the money she has amassed, Carrie will not be able to achieve peace of mind in her life, the apparent lack of poetic justice -- the notion that immorality should pay in the end, even if only up to a point -- was a concept the reading public were altogether unused to at the time. (summary from wikipedia)...

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...assembled by the editor, Stuart Mason - ends with transcript of Wilde’s first appearance in the Old Bailey, when he was cross-examined on the alleged immorality of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The disastrous outcome of these trials provides an ironic conclusion to the earlier knockabout exchanges between Oscar and his reviewers. In these he is at his flamboyant be...

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...ovie's director, takes this issue one step further by perpetrating a massive act of immorality on screen. Truman is lied to, cheated, deprived of hi...

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... been having sex before marriage. She says she had heard about her husband’s immorality. She says he promised her that he would correct himself aft... ...at a HIV/AIDS patient properly because it is a disease associated with 210 immorality so it is considered to be indecent, so they attach a social...

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...se, the man who is not concerned with morality will not be interested in immorality. The answer to selfishness lies in selfishness, not a fictitious...

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... day. He holds the strict monogamy and chastity of Germanic marriage customs worthy of the highest praise, in contrast to what he saw as the vice and immorality rampant in Roman society of his day, and he admires their open hospitality, their simplicity, and their bravery in battle. One should not, however, think that Tacitus' portrayal of Germanic customs is entirely favo...

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...superiority of communism, or gregarious happenings extolling libertinism, immorality and the lack of culture, mass hysteria induced in groups of you... ...elude this judgement. This last speculation supports the assertion on the immorality of the death penalty, since such a punishment can give rise to a... ...d to moral suicide as an aim, is not to be admitted. When it comes to the immorality of avoidance of the divine judgment, its causes shoudn′t be at... ...ed during its material existence but nevertheless, a creation of God. The immorality of this act resides in the fact that man’s judgement is substitu...

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...alists, America is the Great Satan, a latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, a cesspool of immorality and spiritual decay. To many European liberals, the U... ...unshaven cynicism interlaced with fascination at the depths plumbed by the locals' immorality and amorality. The jet-set Peeping Toms reside in fi...

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...pes out whole populations of innocent women and children for some sort of immorality, then mercifully forgives murderers, adulterers and ruthless co... ...aterials. It‘s obvious what arguments might be given for the morality and immorality of war. So let‘s look at a couple of war related problems. ... ...pre- and extra-marital sex they can avoid AIDS. This same approach to the immorality of condom use is found in Zanzibar and with some religious cons... ...ral, to be prepared to do something that is immoral is to admit their own immorality. So it is more often done on the spur of the moment without pro... ...reventing qualities.‖ —―It seems to me that the previous notion of ‗immorality‘ based on some religious teachings has become less of a deterre... ...because so many religions see homosexuality as immoral.‖ —―But the immorality might only apply to male couples. It seems that the Bible only ...

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...s industry are marketed to all nations in the world, the same violence and immorality, the same circus amusements, the same global imitation and unifo... ...rd and led decent lives, it did not approve of drunkenness, quarrelling or immorality. The guardian also had a part in maintaining the moral values of... ...s places from which the threat to future is spreading: criminality, drugs, immorality. In cities, selfishness, looking after number one, prevails; peo...

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...unshaven cynicism interlaced with fascination at the depths plumbed by the locals' immorality and amorality. The jet-set Peeping Toms reside in fi...

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...e, we increase the dosage and consume added tales of malevolence and sinfulness and immorality. Thus, in the role of spectators, we safely maintain ... ...unshaven cynicism interlaced with fascination at the depths plumbed by the locals' immorality and amorality. The jet-set Peeping Toms reside in fi... ...e, we increase the dosage and consume added tales of malevolence and sinfulness and immorality. Thus, in the role of spectators, we safely maintain ... ...ovie's director, takes this issue one step further by perpetrating a massive act of immorality on screen. Truman is lied to, cheated, deprived of hi...