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...master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. Rab went to Marlborough, was a brilliant undergraduate at Cambridge, and headed the university debating society. After one debate, in which Butler voted against a motion argued by Stanley Baldwin, he was warned by the visiting Prime Minister that "intellectualism is a sin and could lead a young man to a fate worse than death." Notwithstanding Baldwin, Rab became a Cambridge don. He deserted the common room for Commons after marrying Sydney Courtauld, a textile heiress, whose long illness and death in 1954 visibly sapped his political energies...
Mormons believe that they alone are members of the one true church of Christ, although they deny such commonly held Christian doctrines as original sin and the possibility of eternal damnation. The church teaches that man treads a progressive path to perfection: in a pre-existent state as a soul without a body, in the life on earth, and finally in the afterlife. More than most religious believers, Mormons seem to keep busy seeking perfection from the cradle to the grave. Every worthy boy becomes a priest at the age of twelve, and two out of three Mormons work part...
...beyond a dream of peace, a man who draws his breath in pain and his inspiration from despair. If he is a hero, it is in spite of his weaknesses, not because of his strengths. If this hero is a religious genius, he must display an absolute conviction of sin and guilt, a faith ever prone to anguished doubt...
Setting Arrested. Now hardly a day goes by without some new, well-aimed deed by a religious leader-such as the recent pronouncement by St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter that Catholics guilty of discrimination should not receive Holy Communion without first confessing their sin. At its convention this year, the United Presbyterian Church voted $5,000,000 to help the cause of integration; the United Church of Christ plans to raise $1,000,000 by the end of 1964 for a new committee on racial justice...
...novel Lord of the Flies attempts to interpret man, sin, and God. It succeeds. The movie Lord of the Flies presents only a few levels of Golding's interpretation. But what it does, it does well...