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...that situation is no more startling than its parallel paradox: the casting of doubt on such formidable Christian doctrines as Original Sin and the Virgin Birth, on the Trinity and the Resurrection, has made many men consider - or reconsider - them not with scorn but with respect, not with contempt but with intellectual curiosity...
...doctrines now being questioned are embed ded in Western man's heritage and, in the manner in which they help interpret sin and guilt, goodness and redemption, they have be come part of his psychic life. They have meaning, often unconscious, for a great majority of humanity - and profound relevance even in 20th century life...
...Swedish film 491 is a sardonic shocker that takes its title from Christ's commandment to forgive sinners "until seventy times seven," or 490 times (Matthew 18:21-22). Apparently suggesting the unforgivable 491st sin, the film depicts a Swedish sociological experiment in which a young bachelor named Krister (connoting Christ) shelters six juvenile delinquents who proceed to wreck his home, sell his furniture, maim themselves, cavort with a prostitute and force her to have inter course with a dog. Assorted scenes evoke other perversions from sodomy to fellatio; the picture ends with Krister's arrest...
When, at campaign's end, Buckley wandered out of the political wonderland he had wrought, he was bemused by the thought that he had "really and truly become a politician-and how would I formulate that sin at my next session with my confessor?" Given the entertainment with which he enlivened New York's 1965 campaign, Buckley should probably be assigned no greater penance than reading his own book-twice...
...agreed that government-sponsored pension systems, social-welfare payments, and the use of bank checks and letters of credit are compatible with tradition. But even though loans at interest are made by all Arab-nation banks, most Islamic scholars still stoutly maintain that this is nothing less than the sin of usury. Others feel that even fire, death and accident insurance are precautions that should not be taken by the good Moslem with faith in the all-merciful Allah...