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...lists three reasons why people turn to the Church: 1) a moral crisis, i.e., consciousness of sin. "Sin becomes the occasion of a loneliness and a void which God alone can relieve." 2) A spiritual or intellectual crisis, i.e., "the growing sense of dissatisfaction with their own ordinariness." 3) A physical crisis, such as illness or accident. Sometimes, adds Sheen, people who most vociferously hate the Church are the closest to conversion: "Hatred indicates interest." The pattern of instruction is always the same. Sheen starts with reason, firmly discouraging all mysticism or merely emotional belief. When people tell him they...
...despair. ¶ Paraphrasing the story of the Pharisee (who was a very nice man), we can imagine him praying in the front of the temple as follows: "I thank Thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt, that sin is a myth, and that Thou, O Father, art only a projection of my father complex ... I contribute 10 per cent of my income to the Society for the Elimination of Religious Superstitions, and I diet for my figure three times a week. Oh, I thank Thee that...
...thought of themselves as the "tutors of mankind in its pilgrimage to perfection," innocent of ulterior ambition or guile. Now they found themselves "condemned in a court of public opinion" by have-not nations, who regarded the virtuous prosperity of the U.S. as a sign of imperialism and international sin...
...types, who don't want any reform to interfere with business, and by a compromising police bureaucracy. Even the Kindly Local Pastor backs down when it comes to chastizing his own parishioners; he's satisfied with Sunday Morning Christianity. So although Captive City ends with a short tirade against sin by the Tennessee Theotonius, Senator Kefauver, one gets the feeling that few people in Kennington--or anywhere else--really give a damn...
Never had the Moscow radio poured such scorn and enmity on Prime Minister Nehru's Indian government. Nehru's sin, though Moscow did not quite put it that way, was to accept U.S. help in freeing India from its periodic famines...