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Much to the surprise of many, most evangelical Christians actually believe the things we say and the things they write. When we claim to "hate the sin and love the sinner," we are not just using polite code words for hate and disgust...
Allan Bloom once described a man who had just gotten out of prison, where he had undergone "therapy." "He said he had found his identity and learned to like himself," writes Bloom. "A generation earlier, he would have found God and learned to despise himself as a sinner...
...fantasy, Koresh had a mangled theological rationale. He was Jesus Christ in sinful form, who because he indulged the flesh could judge mankind with insights that the first, more virtuous Messiah had lacked. Or as he put it in one of his harangues to the faithful: "Now what better sinner can know a sinner than a godly sinner...
Come on along, fiction lovers, James Wilcox writes your kind of book. GUEST OF , A SINNER (HarperCollins; $20), his sixth novel, is a funny, rambling chronicle of half a dozen people in New York City whom any sociologist would label misfits. Eric Thorsen gets by as a piano teacher and accompanist. His sister sells espresso machines at Macy's. Their father brews trouble. So do the people drawn to the Thorsens, mostly by Eric's good looks -- to which he is indifferent. Wilcox's skill is in taking the reader by the hand into his shaggy narrative and filling...
...problem with "bimbo eruptions." Carville, who serves as one of Clinton's top strategists and phrasemakers, quickly fired back, calling his inamorata's memo "new evidence that the Bush campaign is out of control." Carville, obviously pained by the situation, added, "You can hate the sin and love the sinner...