Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuade people--in their hearts--that they are sin, and that they have evil thoughts and that they're greedy and violent and destructive, and--more than anything else--that their bodies must be hidden and that sex is nasty and corrupting and must be kept secret. When they believe all that they do as they're told. They don't judge you--they feel guilty themselves and accept that you have the right to judge them...
...button proclaiming WIN (for Whip Inflation Now), a Miami entrepreneur named Marvin D. Baida was quick to see the possibilities. But when he tried to peddle WIN pins for a quarter each, there were few takers. Then Baida had an inspiration: he started selling a 25? button that declared SIN (for Stop Inflation Now). The public took to SIN instantly: 60,000 pins have been ordered, and Baida has branched out into T shirts and bumper stickers (HONK IF YOU WANT TO SIN...
...Sakharov's hopes of convergence are not a well-grounded scientific theory but a moral yearning to save man from the ultimate nuclear sin, to avoid nuclear catastrophe. If we are concerned with solving mankind's moral problems, the prospect of convergence is a somewhat dismal one: if two societies, each afflicted with its own vices, gradually draw together and merge into one, "what will they produce? A society doubly immoral through cross-fertilization...
...Restoration comedy, refining grossness into gaiety. He gave bawdry rare class. His rakish characters pursue their seductions, cuckoldries and feverish fornications with the aristocratic aplomb of English gentlemen on a fox hunt. Their talk is nakedly lubricious, yet it shimmers with wit. The absolute lack of any sense of sin gives even the most scandalous scenes in Congreve's plays a pagan air of preadamite innocence...
...Pontiff conceded that "human liberation has been rightly emphasized," for example, he cautioned that "the totality of salvation is not to be confused with one or another aspect of liberation. The Good News must preserve all of its own originality: that of a God who saves us from sin and death and brings us to divine life. Hence human advancement [and] social progress [are] not to be excessively emphasized on the temporal level to the detriment of the announcement of the Good News...