Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maumetry & Martyrdom. Dr. Foxe intersperses political history ("the happy death and castlecomedown" of Bloody Mary), pulpiteering invective...
...Mancha. NBC's Frontiers of Faith will soon undertake a twelve-part series on modern ethics-including one program called "The Manly Art of Seduction," inspired by Hugh Hefner's Playboy philosophy. ABC's Directions offered a highly praised dramatization of the martyrdom of Jan Hus, the 15th century Bohemian reformer. Says Pamela Ilott, director of religious programming for CBS: "Our problem is not in coming up with new ideas but in finding enough Sundays to express them...
...words of one Catholic educator, of "human construction." It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life. As such it deserves fairness, compassion, understanding and, when possible, treatment. But it deserves no encouragement, no glamorization, no rationalization, no fake status as minority martyrdom, no sophistry about simple differences in taste-and, above all, no pretense that it is anything but a pernicious sickness...
...argues, the key question is: "What does God's love demand of me in this particular situation?" By stressing the demand of love, situation ethics is at once more lenient and more stringent than law morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison, if it has the elements of caring, of tenderness and selfless concern...
What perhaps was most pathetic about the Morrison and LaPorte suicides was the futility of such attempts at martyrdom. Where dissent is harshly silenced, spectacular means of protest may be needed; within the ample means and methods of U.S. democracy, a human voice means more than a human torch. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once said, "while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...