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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.