Word: sinlessness
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...woman demanded the town leadership do something because the FLDS were practicing polygamy and living in sin. Nikolauk responded: "Two thousand years ago this young fella stood up in defense of a whore and said he who is without sin cast the first stone. I know there are some sinless folks here so why don't you stand up so we can applaud you." That calmed the anger. For a while too, the town feared that the newcomers would take over the local government. When that did not happen, the mayor said the community developed a "detente" with the FLDS...
During one of the first visits to Neverland, Jackson invited the boy and his brother to stay in his room but insisted they first get permission from their parents. The boy says his parents agreed. Did they believe that Jackson was the sinless benefactor he has always proclaimed himself to be, or were other forces--ignorance, celebrity fever, avarice--at play? Over the next two years, the boy, his mother and his younger brother and older sister were stay-over guests at Neverland. Jackson lavished gifts and attention on them and provided them an SUV and rides in limousines. Gradually...
...Bible As It Was, Kugel discusses Adam and Eve at length. Popular understanding associates a sinless existence and Satan with the story of Adam and Eve, but there is no mention of this in Genesis, Kugel noted...
...hard to love today! It is so hard to be sinless! I hate, I am sinful, I doubt, I am unsure and blaspheme. If I see him sure and steady, spread out on the boards I will not believe it. If I see him walking out with tainted men and himself untouched I will not believe it. Will Christ walk on the waves where I am drowning, or sinking down to take my hand lift both of us in rapture...
...religion, had failed. That knowledge was Old World knowledge, compromising and corrupt. Like Jefferson Smith, we "did not pretend to know." But we brought clean hands. We were not like other nations. We free, we do not colonize. We give, we do not take. We are the original sinless. But the clean hands were those of Lieut. William Calley...