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...looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do-and I have done it -and God forgives me for it. But that doesn't mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock...
...speeches contained few surprises. The anti-gun control, anti-busing, anti-abortion, anti-ERA, anti-homosexuality, anti-big government platform is predictable enough. Someone wants the telephone tax removed as an infringement of free speech; revenue sharing, foreign aid, and the graduated income tax get canned; the Maddox people condemn the 55 mph speed limit as unconstitutional--standard conservative fare in sum, but proof that the creative reactionary is still alive and well...
Literary critics often condemn an author for sloughing off responsibility on to karma or fate, and placing it with the characters themselves. But at best, people can control only their internal feelings -- and for all there is the omnipresent threat of the outside world, always readying itself for an attack. And Jaffe draws on this potential for violence to condemn 'modern' women who spend hours bemoaning their nebulous fate, who have forgotten how to step back, out of their walled-in worlds and realize that the most crucial goal is to find happiness and strength within themselves...
...morality of profits-most simply put, that to earn from the labors of another is an intrinsically evil form of extortion. Michel de Montaigne, the 16th century French thinker, entitled one of his essays "The Profit of One Man Is the Damage of Another." His thesis: "Man should condemn all manner of gain...
...most responsible for ending the prosecutions, however, was Harvard president Increase Mather (A.B. 1656). He and some other Cambridge ministers, meeting in Old Harvard Hall, agreed that no court should condemn anyone to death on the basis of "spectral evidence" alone. Mather followed up at once by composing a tract, Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits, which was instrumental in persuading the Governor to end the sorry business; and, visiting in prison a number of persons who had under pressure confessed to witchcraft, Mather got eight of them to recant...