Nothing makes the self-righteous feel better about themselves than the martyrdom of lost causes.
The Quran also repeatedly states that death is not necessarily bad because the afterlife for the righteous is infinitely better in comparison to life on earth, with rivers, gardens, soft cushions and numerous other luxuries that are beyond human comprehension.
"It's going to be a righteous party, and way better than being at some lame debate".
"Greater Jihad," is the struggle within the soul of a person to be better, more righteous -- the fight against the devil within.
Individual sessions have covered the possibility of terror cells forming in prisons, considered a ripe environment with little concrete activity, and countering the vision of extremists who use Islam to convince the young that suicide bombings are the righteous path to a better world.
The goal is to convince family members, friends, colleagues, customers and other stakeholders, through a continuous process of emotional self-branding, that we are able to do the right, or even better, the "righteous" thing -- even though we are forced to navigate a complex landscape of moral ambiguities.
Choose a set of rules, morals, or principles that you believe will lead to a happy, satisfying, and righteous life, and a better world.
This argument says that by living out their teachings without acting self-righteous, Christians stand a better chance of actually changing the culture rather than simply complaining about it.
Could there be a better use of righteous indignation?
I have the quiet righteous malice of one with better poems than other women's reputations have been made by"); and, most chilling, her astonishing declaration of her hatred for her mother, Aurelia, which runs on for pages in the journal for December 1958: "In a smarmy matriarchy of togetherness it is hard to get a sanction to hate one's mother"; "So how do I express my hate for my mother?
