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
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
Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw.
From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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