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...Thou Shalt Not Kill." But that kind of argument was not material to the real case of Dr. Sander. Had he done a good deed or committed a great sin? The state's answer was that Dr. Sander had committed a sin against society, tearing apart some of its moral and legal fabric; that fabric had to be repaired, no matter what the defendant's own interpretation of what was right and what was wrong...
...Council of Churches' Executive Committee, a subcommittee hammered out a statement on the Christian implications of the Bomb: "Man's rebellion against his Creator has reached such a point that, unless stayed, it will bring self-destruction upon him ... All this is a perversion. It is a sin against...
With the collaboration of Basil Dean, Graham Greene has transformed his novel into an extremely affecting play. Mr. Greene tells a story of Catholic sin and anguish with supreme artistry: he is a master of dialogue and characterization, and, what is more, he blends philosophic ideas and drama with great success. Rogers and Hammerstein, the producers, and Basil Dean, the director, have afforded this adaptation a very skillful production...
...disliked every year of it. When it is finally arranged for her to travel for a rest, the major falls in love with a young war widow who becomes helplessly dependent on him. He had hitherto been only a perfunctory Catholic and thus avoids the problem of his sin until the issue is forced by the return of his wife and the anticipation of their customary joint confession. He manages, however, to confess to the priest alone, but will not repent. The major is torn between Catholic judgement, in which he believes, and another morality which will not allow...
...angakok doesn't consider sinful what a white preacher considers sinful, but knows only one kind of sin - that which harms the community . . . An angakok . . . believes in every spirit [but] the white men are exceedingly narrow-minded and conceited people, and that's the reason why they dare say there exists, at the most, one spirit-theirs, of course! . . . Each tribe has the god it deserves, for gods are made in the image of those that believe in them. Therefore the stupid have a stupid god, the intelligent an intelligent god, the good a good god, the wicked...