Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shame! Even though her own people "denounced her as a sinner and a whore," you glamorized the actions of Liv Ullmann...
Many Norwegians, less sexually liberated than their Swedish neighbors, were scandalized by Liv's unmarried motherhood. They harassed her in much the same way as Americans had harassed Ingrid Bergman 22 years before. Letters came in denouncing her as a sinner and a whore. Some told her that she should take the baby into the woods and leave it; others kindly suggested that she should kill herself as well. The Lutheran Church refused to allow the baby to be baptized. Liv went on Norwegian TV to defend her action in an emotion-charged statement. Though she still believes...
...like Jesus Christ...Ever since I was a little child, I have hated him." Aghast, the bishop asks, "What? Such a kind, gentle God? How is this possible?" After the bishop administers the last sacraments to a man, who, it happens, killed his father and mother, saying to the sinner, "God in his kindness forgives the most hardened criminals," he then murders...
...showing that she has been treated badly by God from the start. This deprivation, however, primarily consists of not being given a penis, and that leads us back to a basically male-oriented view. Like the Bible and Milton before him, Miller presents Woman as the more blameworthy sinner. One can only go so far, after all, in pacifying Women's Lib before losing the original theme. Miller has tried to keep a foot in both camps, and the stretch has turned...
Calling, O sinner, come home...