Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous...
CELEBRATION features Potemkin, a master of ceremonies and revelers, presiding over a world peopled by an Orphan, an Angel and an evil Mr. Rich. Simplicity and clarity are the order of the evening, and that alone makes the show a treat by contrast to most other Broadway musicals...
...showed us that the liberal ideology and leadership in which we had trusted was capable of monstrous and stupid acts. The lines hardened with our growing desperation: by the time of the mass marches in New York and Washington, the government was transforming itself into a hierarchy of evil. We discovered "complicity" and "resistance," and for a time fought the war in emotional, personal acts of confrontation. Then generalizations began to appear, explanations of the war in terms of various theories of imperialism. Our attention was directed inward, first to corporations involved in the war, and finally to the universities...
...descended not from one set of parents but from many, thus making a literal Adam and Eve quite unlikely. For another, Biblical scholars agree that the story of man's fall in Genesis is not history but myth-a story that points to the basic truth of evil in the world but says nothing about the inheritance of sin. Augustine even read St. Paul wrong; the correct translation of the passage in Romans was not "in whom all have sinned" as the Vulgate had it, but, as the original Greek correctly phrased it, "because all have sinned...
...doctrine? "The term original sin," University of Chicago Theologian Joseph Sittler says, "remains as a kind of pail which we've drained of the old literal statements and refilled with quite new interpretations. The doctrine meant to point to the gravity, the universality, and the demonic results of evil. And the language was a way of stating this. But we no longer buy the old notion of biological transmission or try to have a system of inheritance. The notion of 'original' means profound-trans-individual, way back and deep down. The analogy of evil has changed...