Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fail to sense the darker moralism, especially in the demoniac fantasy of the second half of this set. The satire is direct when compared to the Proverbs, yet the allusions to man's bestiality go beyond simple remarks on human foibles to a statement of original sin...
Hope or Despair? With this myth, Camus brings up a series of questions which have often been asked in the 20th century: Since God does not exist, under whose spiritual authority do I act? Since there is neither sin nor Hell, why do I feel so awful all the time? Since the past is just one damned thing after another, how did I get this way? Since there is no future, what is the use of going on? The Almighty set his canon against Hamlet's self-slaughter, but what is there to hold me back...
...surpass us in gratitude to the Creator and in goodness and love to all that demands love and kindness. [But] in principle we must say that the Christian order of redemption was realized by God for this world . . . Only we, who are descended from Adam, are born in original sin, and God became man to redeem us ... His church and His sacraments are [not] valid for . . . other planets...
...attitude. "The question of an eventual missionary activity among the inhabitants of other planets," he said, "hinges on two fundamental questions: 1) is there spiritual and physical human life on planets, and 2) are the inhabitants still in the state of original grace, or have they fallen into sin...
...Phenix City Story (Allied Artists). Long before the Civil War, Phenix City, Ala.-its name was Lively in those days-was known as the Sodom of the South. By 1941 it had grown into a "Sin City" of more than 15,000 permanent residents, almost all of them employed in the vice factories-gambling dens, brothels, dope parlors-that lined Phenix City's 14th and Dillingham Streets. By night the population doubled, and most of the steady customers came from Fort Benning, the U.S. Army's training camp across the Chattahoochee. When the boys didn't come...