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...central tenet of Christianity that sinful humans must be reconciled ("justified") with a righteous God to be saved. In traditional Catholic doctrine, the reception of the sacraments and the performance of good works can assist the process of salvation. Martin Luther, the German priest who broke with Rome and initiated the Reformation when he nailed his theses to a church door in Wittenberg, argued that people were saved by God's grace through faith alone. He cited St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 5: 1: "Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with...
Brothers succeeds in making us moralize precisely because Sibbard restrains himself from self-righteous pontification. Although James ultimately rejects Harry's offer to "take him away from all this," when James takes to the bottle again, no one is certain that he has made the right choice. Sibbard's play works because of not in spite of--the frayed ends; they let it transcend the level of soap opera, and leave the audience feeling appropriately unsettled and introspective...
...male companion or a large styrofoam dummy of one. Guidebooks, including the one put out by Harvard Student Agencies, warn them in passing that it's hopeless to get mad at an entire culture. They are rarely in any real danger--any more than at home--and righteous indignation proves extremely difficult to maintain...
Just for fun, Nixon gouges old enemies like liberals, journalists, academicians and anybody he believes to be timid and self-righteous. He tears down what he sees to be myths ("The nuclear freeze is a fraud"). "Confusing real peace with perfect peace is a dangerous but common fallacy," Nixon writes. "Perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter. . . perfect peace has no historical antecedents and therefore no practical meaning in a world in which conflict among men is persistent and pervasive. If real peace is to exist, it must exist along with...
...network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett and noted, accurately, that some of his best friends were black, including Muhammad Ali, Willie Stargell and Sugar Ray Leonard. "I was bragging on him [Garrett] with affection," spouted the righteous sportscaster, adding, "My record as far as race relations is supreme...