This is how self-righteousness is developed. When we would just depend on our own ideas about what is true, good and beautiful, independently of God, there is no way but for us to fall into this trap ...

The religious folks called the Pharisees in the time of Jesus were offended, because in their view God loved only the righteous who kept the law. They therefore distanced themselves from so-called ...

Murder starts with a selfish, prideful motive. And so, Jesus was saying to the self-righteous Pharisees in the crowd, “Righteousness is not only a matter of external things. Righteousness does not ...

The Sunday lectionary reading for the Third Sunday before Lent in Year C is Luke 6.17–26, this gospel's version of the ...

You can see this in many of the excesses of the church that people criticise – the anti-intellectualism, the self-righteousness and the judgmental ... players in the scene are our old friends, the ...

“A co-belligerent is a person who may not have any sufficient basis for taking the right position but takes the right ...

For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

Libertarian philosophy is based upon the non-aggression principle, but a libertarian society also needs institutions to help ...

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