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Is piety superior to reverance?
A pious man is not always a reverent man, for he is biased in his world views and the views of living things.
A reverent man is a pious man, for he surely walks a righteous path of universal respect and care.
What are your views on this?
Chivalry is attributed to knighthood, which assumes only knights could embody these characteristics and uphold this code.
@Tinman - Without copy and pasting, piety is the adherence and the quality of reverance to a religion, reverence is respect, deep and profound respect. I did not mince words.
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- James KLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
One can be reverent without being pious. Reverence does not necessarily imply religious faith. For example, one can hold a forest in reverence, or life itself.
Piety necessarily includes reverence. (It is difficult to be pious about something you do not believe or hold in disregard.)
That is contrasted with "false piety," or the outward signs of piety whilst behaving hypocritically,
Source(s): atheist - Anonymous7 years ago
If you make up your argument and then change the meanings of words you can argue anything.
PIETY
Since, then, the nature of justice consists in rendering another person his due, wherever there is a special aspect of something due to a person, there is a special virtue. Now a thing is indebted in a special way to that which is its connatural principle of being and government. And piety regards this principle, inasmuch as it pays duty and homage to our parents and country, and to those who are related thereto.
