expediences

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

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.

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

Thus we see that these expediences, pretended for the ceremonies, are attained unto as well and better without them than by them.

The soldiers, accustomed, as all Roman soldiers were, to all the expediences and resources of warfare, had prepared planks which were to be run forward on the ladder, in order to construct a firm bridge.