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...fervor to build an atom bomb for use against the Axis powers. They succeeded beyond their expectations, and many of them were haunted for years by the horror of their success. In the words of their leader, Robert Oppenheimer, wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, "they had known sin." At any rate, many of them did not want to give more years of their lives to developing in peacetime even more frightful weapons...
Above both judge .and psychologist, says Sir Walter, "there is a distinctive, Christian approach to wrongdoing, which is based on a distinctive estimate of the nature of wrong and of the way to put it right ... In the first place 'Sin,' as the Christian conceives it, differs from 'Crime' not only in degree but in kind. It is a morbid condition of the whole self rather than a series of overt acts ... In a certain sense, personal responsibility ... is here at its most extreme ... It is an obligation to answer not only for particular acts...
...took upon himself the awful task of writing the news of her sons' decision to Sin-shee Jang. "Mother has been tortured enough," he said bitterly, after the letter was mailed. "We want her to die now." He added, in helpless rage: "Those god-dammed Communists...
Last week Joe Jang got one last letter from China. Sin-shee Jang had killed herself by jumping into a well in the village...
...Good Thief. In Atlanta, after a watch and two rings disappeared from the Rev. George VV. Jordan's home, he held a special service at his church, gave his flock a fiery sermon on "The Sin of Robbery," later found the stolen goods on his doorstep...