Word: human
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What Msgr. Sheen is describing is not the dawn of the religious phase of human history, but a retrogression to the era of the persecuting bigot and the inquisitor...
...medieval harshness nor justifies its Byzantine intolerance. It is a tragedy that, in the name of socialism, a self-chosen elite should deprive men of their right to disagree, their right to speak freely, their right to think independently -rights without which there can be neither popular culture nor human dignity...
Between Protestantism and the other great religions the barrier to theological unity is even less surmountable. An agnostic would say that, just as there are different sizes in clothing, it seems necessary to have many different theological in order to approximate the various specifications of different human souls. From the point of view of a church goer of more rigid beliefs the divergency is accounted for by the fact that God has divided humanity into saints and sinners...
...struggle for human decency and a better social order seems to me to be more important than the "ultimate" victory of a total program. ... It seems to me unwise to jeopardize the chances for immediate piecemeal gains by staking everything on one effort for fundamental revolutionary change. . . . Te be resigned to the contingency of defeat, but to fight like hell for the best possible chance in every alternative, is what the good life in action means. To triumph in a struggle at the cost of one's fundamental values is the height of vulgarity-and futility...
Last week Carder-Bresson contemplated the windowed gorges of Manhattan, while his wife-Javanese Dancer Ratna Mohini -rehearsed for a recital. He took his camera everywhere about the city, peering, with an explorer's lust for the unknown, into thousands of hurrying faces. "Human faces," Carder-Bresson mused, "are such a world...