Word: repentance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There they go, brandishing Bible verses, preaching of doomsday, urging man to repent. A new fundamentalist sect? No, a small but growing band of church scholars on an "eco-trip"-seeking theological underpinning for the ecology crusade...
...wastrels repent, the righte ous stand firm, and all go to heaven or hell according to their merits. Singer is neither a skeptic nor a dogmatist. To those brought up on a steady diet of realism and humanism. his simple faith is refreshing. "When I'm in trouble I pray," he said. And since I'm always in trouble I'm always praying." But he seldom goes to synagogue. "If I had small children, I would take them to synagogue . . because small children need organized religion." he said. Singer's God is a paternal God who listens to our prayers...
...papers, yet are we inexorably swerving the policy of our nation. And as we do this in the streets and at the polls, let us in the sanctuary not minimize or disparage the moral ground on which our government has taken its stand. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the compassionate abandonment of the maxims of an isolationist fortress American. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the scrutiny of historic experience and on the resolution not to permit the armed crossing of the Czechoslovakian or any other international frontier through...
...this to come to pass, we must repent as a nation what we have inadvertently wrought at such a cost to them and to ourselves and to the U.N. and all that it could stand for. For this to come to pass, we can not speak henceforth of what may be honorable but rather of what may be just. For something positive to come out of this mutual agony; can we not restrain all speech about defeat or victory, except it be the victory of a people healed by its own stripes, by chastisement made whole...