Religion and Ethics
- Christmas tree
- Advent wreath by Johann Hinrich Wichern
- Advent calendar
- Easter Bunny
- Protestantism and Lutheranism : in 1517, Martin Luther, an Augustinian priest, published The Ninety-Five Theses.
- Kantianism by Immanuel Kant
- German idealism
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Famous quotes containing the words religion and, religion and/or ethics:
“... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else’s morality.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)