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The greatest glory for the smallest child
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RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child
(April 6, 2013 at 8:59 pm)jstrodel Wrote: That is what utilitarians think "the greatest glory for the smallest child". That is there manifesta!


So says the liberal "though we know not yet what to do, yet will we giveth glory, the greatest glory to the smallest child"

I said I know what utilitarianism is. You should have known not to just make it up.
wikipedia Wrote:Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes utility, specifically defined as maximizing happiness and reducing suffering.
Where do you keep getting all of these weird ideas from?

(April 6, 2013 at 9:05 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Humility is agreement with God, when your spirit shines with the Holy Ghost.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07543b.htm
the Catholic Encyclopedia Wrote:The word humility signifies lowliness or submissiveness an it is derived from the Latin humilitas or, as St. Thomas says, from humus, i.e. the earth which is beneath us. As applied to persons and things it means that which is abject, ignoble, or of poor condition, as we ordinarily say, not worth much. Thus we say that a man is of humble birth or that a house is a humble dwelling. As restricted to persons, humility is understood also in the sense of afflictions or miseries, which may be inflicted by external agents, as when a man humiliates another by causing him pain or suffering. It is in this sense that others may bring about humiliations and subject us to them. Humility in a higher and ethical sense is that by which a man has a modest estimate of his own worth, and submits himself to others. According to this meaning no man can humiliate another, but only himself, and this he can do properly only when aided by Divine grace. We are treating here of humility in this sense, that is, of the virtue of humility.

The virtue of humility may be defined: "A quality by which a person considering his own defects has a lowly opinion of himself and willingly submits himself to God and to others for God's sake." St. Bernard defines it: "A virtue by which a man knowing himself as he truly is, abases himself." These definitions coincide with that given by St. Thomas: "The virtue of humility", he says, "Consists in keeping oneself within one's own bounds, not reaching out to things above one, but submitting to one's superior" (Summa Contra Gent., bk. IV, ch. lv, tr. Rickaby).
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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The greatest glory for the smallest child - by jstrodel - April 6, 2013 at 6:18 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Nine - April 6, 2013 at 6:25 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Nine - April 6, 2013 at 6:29 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Nine - April 6, 2013 at 6:32 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Nine - April 6, 2013 at 6:46 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Darkstar - April 6, 2013 at 9:13 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Tonus - April 6, 2013 at 10:17 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Silver - April 6, 2013 at 10:17 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Tonus - April 6, 2013 at 10:29 pm
RE: The greatest glory for the smallest child - by Tonus - April 6, 2013 at 11:33 pm

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