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unrighteousness
noun
The state of being unrighteous.
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One formulation of the doctrine is given in the Bhagavadgita when Krishna tells Prince Arjuna: Whenever there is a decline of righteousness [dharma] and rise of unrighteousness then I send forth Myself.
Whenever there is a decline of righteousness [dharma] and rise of unrighteousness then I send forth Myself.
Heaven not only "desires righteousness and abominates unrighteousness" but also metes out reward and punishment accordingly.
As is the case with the white middle-class corporate executives who see no ethical boundaries preventing them from working for exploitative multinationals in Africa, which displace and destroy the lives of tens of thousands, there will always be a small number of impressionable converts, from the poorest communities, who are lured on to the paths of unrighteousness.
"The prophets are concerned about social sin and God judges nations for their unrighteousness".
The economist called those who held such views "austere and puritanical souls" who believed that it would "be a victory for the mammon of unrighteousness" if general prosperity were not "subsequently balanced by universal bankruptcy".
Now, in 1922, seven years after the Parks Commission and the Municipal Arts Commission paid him $60,000 to create something epic to put atop a fountain in City Hall Park, here was what MacMonnies had wrought: "Civic Virtue Triumphant Over Unrighteousness," it was formally called, though the town wags nicknamed him Rough Boy on the spot.
Unrighteousness is female?
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