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...contrast, a sensible modern materialist like Richard, who takes love easy and regards sex as an urge that can be indulged without guilt or passion, seems only half alive. Love and life, in short, gain savor from a sense of sin and self-denial. The stricture against eating the apple and the sword in Tristram and Iseult's bed are both powerful sharpeners of appetite. This is not artistic news, though the observation is now unfashionable. That being so, whether Marry Me is part apologia or all fictional serrmonette, one of its points could well be dismissed...
...radicals had attacked discredited former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the onetime favorite to succeed Chou En-lai as Premier, for erroneously arguing that "it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it can catch mice." Teng's sin was suggesting that the color of the cat (meaning correct ideology) was less important than such practical results as building the economy...
...does not encourage homosexuality. He created human beings who later decided, by their own free will, to become homosexuals. Homosexuality is sin; it cannot be justified by McNeill's mutilation of Scripture...
What's new about narcissism? It has been around since the serpent told Eve "You will be like gods . . ." Another name for it is original sin-and I suppose it's at least part of what prompts me to write this letter, hoping to see my name and my opinion in TIME...
...surprising that talk of sin is what we Northerners are hearing from the South this election year; fundamentalist religion and absolutist values come naturally to a region whose dominant social sensibility is even now shaped by humiliation and betrayal...