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Glowing with moral indignation, the Presi dent applied brimstone, aiming sulfurous blasts at the Soviet Union. "There is sin and evil in the world. And we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might . . . America has kept alight the torch of freedom . . . Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness - pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware they are the focus of evil in the modern world...
There's nothing inherently wrong with drawing lines between good and evil: indeed, the President astutely interpreted the Bible by concluding that "There is sin and evil in the world, and we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might." But it is one thing to decry evil and another to identify its source. If we are to trust Reagan's ability to find and combat evil, it makes sense to check the man's track record on holding aloft the torch of freedom. It doesn't look good...
...over a misspent life, Lewis will still ruminate over making a stand for God. But the devil - the music, and the life that goes with it - always wins out. Shared or not, that fundamentalist faith gives Jerry Lee's music, even to a heathen, the unique power of sin. No smart talk or sidestepping for him. This is the devil's music, and Jerry Lee Lewis plays it with the aplomb of a peer. He may smell damnation himself, but that unholy gift of his has surely secured him a place in rock-'n'-roll heaven...
This idea comes to light in the report's basic principle of "indirect responsibility," an old principle, needing little clarification. What the Israeli commission called indirect responsibility, Thomas Aquinas deemed the sin of omission, and the concept antedates Aquinas in the Old Testament prophets. In domestic law it goes by the name of negligence. The application is familiar: by doing nothing to prevent a wrongful act, in spite of having the power to do so, one shares a portion of the blame. It may go further. If one sets into motion a train of events that lead...
...OCCASION of the first successful atomic explosion, J. Robert Oppenehimer wrote, "At last physics has known sin. "This realization of a scientist's responsibility to consider the human consequences of his work has gradually become inescapable for modern physicists since 1945. No other scientist has displayed a more acute realization of his duty to the world than Andrei Sakharov, a member of the group which developed the Russian nuclear bomb in 1948, and a prominent dissident and human rights activist since the mid-1960s...