Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, other men of ideas found other banners to rally around. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr condemned the liberal reformers for having ignored the fact of original sin, and declared that man's destiny is to "seek after an impossible victory and to adjust himself to an inevitable defeat." In his The Public Philosophy, Journalist Walter Lippmann denounced the "Jacobin heresy" of the modern democracies, which insists that the New Man will be born out of his emancipation from authority. What is needed, said Lippmann, is a return to the idea of natural law, for with the disappearance of this public...
...Index of Forbidden Books. The legion's recommendations are designed merely to help Catholics form their own consciences about what movies to see. But movie-going is "no exception to the general principle that before we perform an act we must assure ourselves that we are not committing sin ... The mere fact that I could probably attend a given picture without falling into sin would not, then, be a sufficient justification for going...
...Bloody Woe." O'Flaherty's Aran islanders move with a Biblical grace and solemnity. Like Bible stories-also told of a religious, race-proud people of dirtpoor shepherds and fishermen-O'Flaherty's tales deal with sin and the seasons and, as in the Bible, the enemies of simple folk are the money-changers of the towns and the soldiers of a foreign king...
...Each His Own. In Edinburgh, Scotland, the National Bible Society, citing an error in translation of the Lord's Prayer in the Negro republic of Liberia, said that the phrase, "Lead us not into temptation," was interpreted by Christians there as "Do not catch us when we sin...
...heavenly commandments to the New Promised Land survived: "You will have no other desire than that of earning money, which will be the only lawful and pleasing thing in the eyes of God." And it is true that other passions, such as those which lead us to the sins of the flesh, remains condemned by human law. In New England and in other states, an adultress or an unwed mother can go to prison. The simple sin of fornication--denounced by the family and neighbors of a girl who has one or two lovers--is punished in the same...