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...believe that every human being inevitably becomes involved in sin and cannot attain salvation without God's intercession, even though man does not merit...
...than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyres and the prophets. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of wordly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther's overwhelming sense of guilt and sin, of total depravity--"the dark night of the soul"--before he discovered hope in the unmerited gift of Divine Grace...
...measure as a floor amendment. In a private analysis circulated to the council members, A.F.L.-C.I.O. lawyers pointed out that "arguing against these rights [free speech, the right of rank-and-file union members to bring court action against their leaders, etc.] is like arguing in favor of sin." But the bill of rights was in fact "an invitation to litigation, a fertile source of conflict between federal and state law, an improper interference . . . with legitimate union activities, and a threat of probably unconstitutional criminal sanctions." On that basis, the council directed A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
...deadly sins with which Mr. Gromyko charges this Western proposal is what I might call the sin of being a package plan . . . All we have done, which indeed complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...
...make matters worse, two years ago Texas Attorney General Will Wilson cracked down on vice, padlocked gambling joints and brothels, arrested tavern owners, dumped most of Galveston's slot machines into the Gulf of Mexico. Sin has had tough going since then, what with the presence of two Texas Rangers and spot raids by state liquor agents, and the madams, hoodlums and gambling interests have never felt the same about George Clough, who allowed it all to happen...