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...Your story on the clergy's condoning extramarital sex, "Thou Shalt Not-Maybe" [Dec. 13], points up only too well the accelerating paganization occurring among some of the "mainline" Protestant churches. Seems some of our theologians and denominational leaders, not to mention parish pastors, would rather be Playboy philosophers than servants of the Son of God. There are some rats aboard the ship of faith...
...Mount Sinai, God was unequivocal: "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Traditionally, most devout Christians have interpreted the Hebraic commandment to extend to all sexual relations outside marriage. Jesus even condemned lustful thoughts, saying that the man who indulged them had "already committed adultery in his heart." But in recent years, pressed both by changing sexual behavior and by liberal theologians, the churches have reluctantly come to grips with a "new morality" that questions whether any "sin"-including adultery or other nonmarital sex -is wrong in all circumstances...
Agnew read McCall's reaction to his speech of the previous night to the group. Reagan told McCall that he was guilty of violating the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not criticize another Republican. Later, one Governor recalled that Agnew learned that not only newsmen can interpret his remarks in various ways. "Those were Republicans in there, all of them loyal to the party, and we had seven or eight different interpretations of his banquet talk. Agnew was really shaken. For McCall, it was a session of acute personal embarrassment. But if the Vice President learns to deal with...
...Primacy (Matthew 16:18-19) Old: And I say to thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and what ever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven...
...centuries, businessmen accepted the comfortable, generally sound idea that, by seeking wealth for themselves, they would create jobs, goods?and wealth ?for others. In modern America, owners and managers figured that their chief duty was to make the biggest profit they could, subject to some qualifying commandments: Thou Shalt Not Cheat Customers, Thou Shalt Not Oppress Workers, Thou Shalt Not Conspire with Competitors. As a citizen, the U.S. executive might worry about housing, education or public health. As a corporate official, he typically considered such things none of his business...