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Technical Sin. The problem is almost as old as Rome itself. The city's founder, Romulus, did allow men to sue for divorce, and the Emperor Justinian permitted it in return for vows of future chastity from each partner, but Mussolini's 1929 Concordat with the Vatican banished divorce entirely. The church courts do permit annulments-at the rate of about 70 a year. Another 12,000 couples win legal separations each year, but the separated remain bound in marriage. Not surprisingly, 2,500,000 Italians have chosen concubinage. About 10% of the entire population is now technically...
...wisdom in his sermons by using such phrases as "Christ-centered" and "faith of our fathers." Another favorite phrase is "holiness unto the Lord. No one has a clue to what this means, but it is one of the most soul-satisfying phrases in the lexicon." References to sin and sinners are always welcome, for they conjure up "images of orgies and black lingerie." Nothing makes the congregation feel so good as singing hymns like C. Austin Miles's In the Garden, which mentions the first personal pronoun 27 times...
...that it cannot withstand critical Biblical scholarship and scientific facts. "No person with any knowledge of history or archaeology could possibly buy this fundamentalist stuff," says Mead. And the moment small-town boys go to college, "they take a course in biology, and their faith is gone. Our great sin is never having offered them a real alternative...
Henceforth, decreed Assistant Display Advertising Manager Marvin Reimer, 52, the Times will reject all copy or pictures dealing with "burlesque, bust measurements, couples in bed, excessive cleavage, horizontal embrace, nude figures or silhouettes, nymphomania, promotional use of the word 'sin,' vulgar anatomical displays." Lest that list missed anything, Reimer also embargoed "violations of normal moral standards...
...Moslem countries, the architects must build slaughterhouses so that animals die facing Mecca, but they have learned that it is an unpardonable sin to install a toilet facing in that direction. Moslem hospitals must be designed so that men and women can be strictly separated at all times. Projects are often delayed by revolutions, coups d'etat, bureaucracy and corruption. In Africa, the architects have had to abandon some carefully selected building sites at the last minute. Reason: local witch doctors considered them "bad juju...