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...strongest opposition to the new programs comes from religious leaders, who are worried that the government is trying to lay the problems of the poor on the doorstep of the churches. Others fear they will be forced to water down their spiritual message and purge religious concepts like sin and God until their work begins to resemble any other bureaucratic undertaking. "The disease of compromising the message will not be felt immediately," says Phil Strickland, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, the Southern Baptists' statewide public policy arm. "It will be like a cancer that grows...
Whitehead, however, regards this promise of self-renewal through divorce as the original sin of recent decades. She calls the phenomenon "expressive divorce" and locates its origins in postwar prosperity. For Whitehead there's a close connection between soaring divorce rates and middle-class narcissism, and though divorce rates have actually plateaued, the siren song of personal liberation sounds as sweet as ever. Pollitt is contemptuous of the notion. She says, "The picture is that people are going along married and in a state of, if not ecstasy, then reasonable content. And then somebody decides to be selfish, frivolous...
...victims, there is still a temptation to impute to them some original sin that attracted catastrophe, rather than the risks taken for friendship, helpfulness or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only thing certain is that Cunanan wanted them to die. Cunanan had parked the red Jeep Cherokee of his murdered ex-lover David Madson near the Chicago home of real estate developer Lee Miglin and could well have seen Miglin working in an open garage, his green Lexus clearly visible. Cunanan killed Miglin, stole the Lexus and abandoned it when he heard radio reports...
...still has a body of "flesh and bones." Mormons also believe that men, in a process known as deification, may become God-like. Lorenzo Snow, an early President and Prophet, famously aphorized, "As man is now, God once was; as God now is, man may become." Mormonism excludes original sin, whose expiation most Christians understand as Christ's great gift to humankind in dying on the Cross...
...would be tempting to assign the Mormons' success in business to some aspect of their theology. The absence of original sin might be seen as allowing them to move confidently and guiltlessly forward. But it seems more likely that both Mormonism's attractiveness to converts and its fiscal triumphs owe more to what Hinckley terms "sociability," an intensity of common purpose (and, some would add, adherence to authority) uncommon in the non-Mormon business or religious worlds. There is no other major American denomination that officially assigns two congregation members in good standing, as Mormonism does, to visit every household...