Word: rebellion
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...uphold the orthodox Christian view that devils are personal evil spirits, angels who fell from God's grace by their own exercise of free will. God permits their evildoing among men because it is part of the natural disorder of things, a necessary consequence of their original rebellion against God. Though the panelists agreed that the existence of personal devils is a firm part of Catholic dogma, a number of other Catholics believe that Satan and his demons are simply symbols for an impersonal force of evil in the universe. That is also the view of many Protestants...
...escape your "hell on earth": 3) no equal education: because educating your kind will lower both student and teacher standards: 4) no justice: because, for some odd reason, you won't cooperate with the system punishment for your dislike of our laws must be judiciously enforced even against your rebellion...
Kaufmann is not opposed to marriage, religion, schools of thought or youthful rebellion. He believes in commitments based on responsible-and revocable-decisions. "The free man," he writes, "does not treat his own conclusions as authoritative; he chooses with open eyes and then keeps his eyes open," admitting, if necessary, "that he may have been wrong even about matters of the greatest importance." Easier said than done; as Kaufmann admits, it is hard to find people who have mastered decidophobia. In the ancient world, he says, Socrates did so; among contemporaries, he cites the Russian novelist Solzhenitsyn...
...rebellion or alienation that leads to pot use as much as the life-style of certain groups-and lifestyle and patterns of social behavior cannot readily be changed by legal fiat...
...bleeding of a liberal heart? If the answer is the first of these, and I suspect it is, then Let Us Now Praise is a remarkable study of the blindspot in a bigotry overcome, that is, its embarrassment to condemn, where condemnation incites the powers of rebellion which sheer sympathy does not have the cruelty to demand...