One who pursues bodily pleasure “at the cost of everything else” does not have control of his passions; his reason is not in the driver’s seat. Individual happiness and fulfillment is one casualty of self-indulgence, but the common good—societal wellbeing—is ...
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Patrick Fagan of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute has been collecting and interpreting data on religion’s sociological impact since the 1980s. He has consistently found overwhelming evidence for religion’s positive effect, primarily because “the strength of the family unit ...
Read MoreThe French philosopher Blaise Pascal once stated that “God instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality.” That is, God acts in response to our prayers causing change in the universe as the result of ...
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