religious values
Faith-based moral codes
Religious values are moral principles and beliefs derived from faith traditions or spiritual teachings.
They typically address matters like honesty, charity, sexual conduct, family structure, and the sanctity of life.
In political discourse, religious values often signals conservative positions on social issues: She campaigned on religious values.
The phrase can imply that secular or progressive views lack equivalent moral grounding.
- creedStatement of belief
- faithTrust without proof
- beliefsAccepted truths, personal
- holy scriptureReligious text from deity
- pietySincere religious devotion
Christianity · golden rule · love thy neighbor · ethics · virtue · commandments · stewardship · Jewish ethics · morality · good works · spirituality · spiritual practice · moral education · Sunday school · theology · sacred · ecumenism · charity
- conservatismconservative, traditionalism, fiscal conservative, small government, free enterprise
- religious ethicsChristian ethics, divine command, moral law, divine law, love thy neighbor
- Catholic educationCatholic schools, Catholic high schools, Catholic universities, parochial schools, parish schools
- nationalismpatriotism, national pride, national sovereignty, national identity, national symbols
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- Christian DemocracyCDA, CSU, subsidiarity, personalism, Angela Merkel
religious valuessecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
secularism · Enlightenment values · freethought · progressive values · consequentialism
religious valuesmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
hedonism · consumerism · nihilism · secularism · worldliness
religious valuesatheism
Rejection of deities
irreligious · atheistic · godlessness · anti-religious · secularism
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