expediences

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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?

From Time • Apr. 29, 2013

Alas, how, in thy soft-hung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of redtape philosophy, of expediences, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: but knowest thou whitherward?

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Thus it makes the individual the center of his own universe, and dissolves moral principles into a choice of expediences.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.

This is as old as Pythagoras and as new as Bergson and Croce; it assumes that the concept of justice is man-made, produced and to be altered by expediences and practicalities, always in flux.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

Mighty antagonisms reared themselves in their way,—ecclesiastical prejudices, the prejudices of culture, social hostilities, political expediences, and all the subtle and violent contrivances of the world, the flesh and the devil.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry