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The differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics are normally defined in terms of doctrine-papal in fallibility, Marianism, the nature of the church. But there is a difference that lies deeper than dogma: the basic approach of men to prayer and piety. It is possible, for example, that a Southern...
Far from Ecumenism. Most Evangelicals are highly suspicious of modern doctrinal statements by mainstream churches-such as the United Presbyterians' proposed "Confession of 1967," which, they claim, reduces the Bible to a vehicle of God's Word rather than the Word itself. They are equally wary of ecumenism...
Brainwiping. In 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a vote of 5 to 4 that federal juries could be trusted to follow judges' instructions and compartmentalize the evidence against codefendants, because otherwise "the jury system does not make sense." But in that decision (Delli Paoli v. U.S.), the...
> Confessions are permissible in joint trials if all incriminating references to other defendants are "effectively deleted" from the confession in question. In Aranda's case, it would have sufficed merely to delete his name from Martinez's confession because the confession contained no other clue to his identity...
Maugham cites his own example. He once met a dull couple at a dull dinner. The man had been a civil servant in Asia, and the only memorable thing about him was that he was a onetime drunk, taking a bottle to bed with him every night and finishing it...