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DoomsdaysCW · @DoomsdaysCW

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How a Huguenot Philosopher Realized That #Atheists Could Be #Virtuous

Christians long held a monopoly on virtue—until Pierre Bayle made the case for moral atheists

by Michael W. Hickson

Bayle: "It is no stranger for an atheist to live virtuously than it is strange for a Christian to live criminally. We see the latter sort of monster all the time, so why should we think the former is impossible?"

#atheists #virtuous

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Renee · @Renay

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(4) …”The bigger message here is that it’s bad for our #health to be too #purist about food. 🍲

The best #diet is not the one that contains the largest volume of perfect foods - not that such things exist - but the one you can stick to for the long term while still #enjoyinglife. 🥕 🥨

No matter how #virtuous it may be, if what you eat gives you no pleasure, it can’t be a #healthydiet.” 🍱

-#BeeWilson #WSJ

#wsj #beewilson #healthydiet #virtuous #enjoyinglife #diet #purist #health

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Renee · @Renay

149 followers · 122 posts · Server masthead.social

(4) …”The bigger message here is that it’s bad for our #health to be too #purist about food. 🍲

The best #diet is not the one that contains the largest volume of perfect foods - not that such things exist - but the one you can stick to for the long term while still #enjoyinglife. 🥕 🥨

No matter how #virtuous it may be, if what you eat gives you no pleasure, it can’t be a #healthydiet.” 🍱

-#BeeWilson ##WSJ

#wsj #beewilson #healthydiet #virtuous #enjoyinglife #diet #purist #health

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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote

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A quotation from Virgil:

«««««
Here are troops of men
who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,
and those who had been pure priests while still alive,
and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;
those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged
and those we remember well for the good they did mankind.…
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/virgil/57600/

#quote #quotation #afterlife #divinejustice #heaven #virtue #virtuous

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Falstaff · @Falstaff

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Normally politics just rolls over me. My daddy taught me to vote for the one that might at least use lube, and I have stuck to that. However as a gentleman of the rural south I have to speak out… I am sick and tired of #carpetbaggers.

My feed is full of #lecturing #ninnies telling me that the apocalypse is nigh if us #ignorant bumpkins don’t vote exactly like the #virtuous tell them to… Y’all, go away. You don’t live here. You ain’t from here.

#carpetbaggers #lecturing #ninnies #ignorant #virtuous

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PJ · @pj

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Found this interesting chapter from a (quite expensive) book. Not sure why the authors differentiate between #secular and #religious concepts, but nonetheless a very interesting discussion.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326423338_Humility_and_Self_Control
The "Virtuous Continuum of Responses" in Fig. 2 has two apparent aspects:
1️⃣ Commitment to following the #law or to #self_guidance
2️⃣ Commitment to #society or to a #self_interest
I find it intriguing that by looking at it this way it seems like a religious individual may become #moral but never #virtuous. A truly #virtuous individual has to be prepared to oppose the #law of the land (both secular and religious) if it endangers "long-term value creation and the duties owed to all stakeholders".

#secular #virtuous #society #religious #law #self_guidance #self_interest #moral

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Bleu Parisien · @BleuParisien

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“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
— Proverbs 31:10 (KJV)

“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”
— Proverbs 31:11 (KJV)

“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.”
— Proverbs 31:12 (KJV)

#GodlyFamily #Love #Jesus #Virtuous ♥️📖🕯️🙏🏽

#godlyfamily #love #jesus #virtuous

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helices · @helices

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There is no act, however #virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive
#ThomasJefferson

#virtuous #thomasjefferson

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helices · @helices

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In fact, it is a farce to call any being #virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason
#MaryWollstonecraft

#virtuous #marywollstonecraft

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