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...hate the glisteningly white, fat men that waddle through the narrow streets of New Orleans here. They come down from Alabama and Mississippi and upstate Louisiana to do drinking and get in their sin here. They go to strip shows and cackle and burp. They're drunk all the time in an aggressively unfriendly way. They bring their wives some of the time and swap them with their friends. They have Kodaks and stupid shirts and they never smile because they're just incredibly miserable and they come down here to reach new heights in misery. They have short hair...
...never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning. The first thing that Adam and Eve did after their rebellion against God was to see themselves naked, and they were ashamed, and they sewed fig leaves and clothed themselves. The whole Biblical teaching since then is that people are to dress in modesty. Now that doesn't mean that girls are to wear their dresses down to their ankles. Certainly a woman should...
Folks said I was full of sin...
...expressions of discontent run the gamut from a cultural "hippie" rebellion to extreme political radicalism. Politically concerned students brought up to trust their leaders and to expect good will and progress from them, have in the recent years undergone an experience which has been tantamount to the discovery of sin, the end of trust, and an overflow of guilt for having been acquiescent or "accomplices" for so long. As trust has waned, many students have been impelled to look to the University to provide that which church and state no longer seem to provide. The continuing agony of Vietnam, coinciding...
...they likely to. More traditional churchmen consider spiritualism an outright violation of the Biblical injunctions against the occult. If a Christian seeks from spiritualism what he cannot find in his own faith, warns an article in the Anglican quarterly, Modern Churchman, he is not "far from the sin of Lucifer-the sin of pride." Nonetheless, Stockwood claims that his pieces in the Times produced hundreds of letters from believers who are convinced that they too have had ghostly visitors...