Even in my excitement I admired the neatness of it, the buttons perfectly aligned, so that I thought for the first time in many years of my father dressing me as a boy, teaching me about this line, the gig line, he called it, buttons and buckle forming an order that was more than vanity, that signalled some deeper righteousness.
I allowed some sense of personal righteousness to satisfy me, and I suppose that's the beginning of where I went wrong.
With a matchmaker's moxie, a millennial's righteousness and some complicity from her five siblings, who are keeping her endeavors under wraps, she grew Ishqr to about 4,500 users.
I no longer believe in God, but if you wish to believe, perhaps your outlook on humanity and righteousness needs some improvement.
Paul, an ex-convict who has found religion, is a bit less clear about what he wants, and he clings to a sense of his own righteousness, even after some dramatic backsliding.
"What can be done with people who think that anyone who does not agree with their fundamentalist path deviates from the path of righteousness?" There are some things about Saudi Arabia that no one expects to change.
While Indonesia has a long tradition of moderation, it was badly destabilized with the end of military rule in 1998, which gave rise to Islamist politicians who preached righteousness and to some hard-core elements, who practiced violence.
But never, ever, out of some false sense of fabricated righteousness, do neither.
Some possess a keen sense of righteousness.
