Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not make a serious mistake with them. If he did something wrong, they being women would grow up around the mistake and somehow convert it to knowledge. But his sons! He had the feeling that because they were men, their egos were more fragile--a serious error might hurt them forever. --Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night...
...Error and Ignorance. The particular infallibility that is claimed for the Pope is based, in part, on Jesus' words to Peter in Matthew 16:18. "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church." Simons argues that Jesus was simply singling out Peter as the foremost of the Apostles and was not investing him with a special spiritual charisma in teaching. In any case, he adds, "if the evidence for ecclesiastical infallibility is not valid, the case for papal infallibility collapses with...
Simons also says that the mystique of infallibility "has not succeeded in saving the Church, its Popes, Bishops and other members from error and ignorance." Because of the church's claim to infallibility, "even her good arguments cease to be effective. Behind them outsiders suspect specious pleadings, not honest attempts to find the truth." Therefore, Simons concludes, "belief in infallibility is an obstacle to progress and the Gospel's effectiveness." It is also, more obviously, an obstacle to Christian unity. Simons argues that the demands of ecumenicism also justify the church's abandonment of the infallibility claim...
...mess. It is in one of these scenes that Miss McNair turns up as Lake's girl Lily. No sooner has she appeared on-screen than she is writhing in St. Jacques' embrace. To make a film debut this way may have been a tactical and professional error. Except for her stylish vocalizing, Miss McNair displays more photogenic than histrionic talent, and in her first screen role she has already given it exhaustive display. Ungallant as it may be to suggest it, her scenes seem to have been designed solely to provide Playboy with some steamy stills...
Brown said that an error of at least 10,000 would be necessary to raise a question about the absence of a quorum. The income from membership is large enough to indicate that such an error has probably not been made, he added...