MORALITY AND IMMORALITY
Morality is concerned with ethics. It is a derivative of
moral which stands for goodness, virtue, righteousness, honesty, uprightness,
justness, decency, purity and blamelessness.
Immorality is defined as sin, vice, evil, badness,
dishonesty, wickedness, corruption and indecency, etc.
Religiously morality refers to charity, kindness, humility, chastity,
temperance, patience and humility. On the contrary, immorality means lust,
greed, envy, wrath, pride, gluttony and lethargy.
Whereas morality is admirable and acceptable by God,
immorality is undesirable and punishable. There is heaven for practitioners of morality,
and hell for those who are guilty of immorality. Morality insures fearlessness and peace of mind. Immorality breeds loss of happiness and causes
an unpeaceful soul.
Teaching of both cardinal virtues and deadly sins is part of education
and literature all over the world. In secularism, their synonyms are right and
wrong.
The French writer Voltaire (1694-1778) says all sects are different, because they
come from men; morality is everywhere the same because it comes from God.
According to the American theologian Edwards Tryon (1809-94)
piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is
religion with its face toward God ; morality is religion with its face toward
the world.
Finally, as somebody has said : One has not only a legal but
a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral
responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
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G.R.Kanwal
11 July 2024
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