By becoming highly educated, I hope to have a small part in the success of their future. ... Set your goals as stepping stones in your life, know where you want to be in its end, and set small goals to get there. ... I am very thankful for all the simple things that are available to me at my convenience. ... I believe that I have no control over my life and that God is the only one who knows what and when something will occur in my life. When bad things happen in my life, I do not question my faith because I know that everything happens for a reason. ...

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" Morally, I believe that as a human being, I do not have the right or power to kill someone or something because that is exclusively set for "God" that is left up to him. ... Complete a perceptive of the biological selection, I have derive to consent that all animals great and small presently in our society are one and the same. They are no different when it come to the things that they need to survive. ... People would go around and kill, lie and cheat, steal and have no concern or remorse for doing these things. ... All Moral and ethical codes should be one and the same but w...

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And God did not say anything specific about Iraq in the Bible. ... God keeps throwing images and thoughts at me. ... Every time I think I have reached a conclusion I see things differently and my opinion does not satisfy my anymore. ... I guess one would pay whatever price is needed to be free -- it is one of those things that are priceless. ... But there is one absolute truth, I believe, and that is the word of God. ...

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The philosophes did not accept the scientific revolutionary notion that the laws of Nature express the will of God. ... God may very likely not exist, there is in truth no need for Him. Lucretius demonstrated that all things and beings are but the combining, breakup, and recombining of atoms. ... Philosophes could displace God with Reason. ... The great manifesto of the philosophe movement was no small document; by the late 1740's, everyone understood that the sum total and the entire spirit of the movement was contained in the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot. ...

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This may be in place because the God is a" parent" in many ways. ... On a smaller scale, killing to obtain personal satisfaction or justice is punishable by laws. ... This particular passage puts more emphasis on an active and angry god, and also one who rewards the devout. ... For things which he has no logical answer for, he categorizes as hypothetical, or yet to be determined. ... She says we are generally thought to have a "rosy view" of things. ...

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Many of us base our rules or guidelines for morality off of the God we believe in, using concepts such as the Ten Commandments. ... Reason, says Kant, has a practical side, which can tell us what and how to do things. ... Some find pleasure in painful things. ... Mill states, "pleasure or happiness is the only thing desirable as an end, and all other desirable things are desired for the pleasure that they produce.... I agree with Mill and Bentham in that the happiness of a larger number is greater then that of a smaller number. ...

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Followers feel their god has more personal characteristics and is not just completely abstract; this connection that followers feel helps to ensure loyalty. ... He says religion happens most intently within individuals or small groups and communities. ... There are two things patriotism causes. ... Citizens can have willful self-delusion that their state is doing good things. ... It is wrong to say that in all cases violence leads to bad things; also, it is wrong to say in all cases violence leads to good things. ...

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He could "see more things than most people, but he could see none of them too distinctly", since his vision is obscured by ambition and greed. ... He is revealed to be the "vice shah of Iran" (237), a "Lorenzo de Medici" (234) - like figure in Italy, and even worshipped as a god in "backward religions" by primitive, "ignorant and superstitious people" in the jungles of Africa (237). ... However, instead of being a benevolent "god" that promotes compassion, natural order, and love, Milo's influence reflects the existing culture of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate