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DIED. HILDEGARD KNEF, 76, sultry German singer and film star billed in the U.S. as the "thinking man's Marlene Dietrich"; of a lung infection; in Berlin. The diva who scandalized church officials with a fleeting nude scene in the 1951 German film The Sinner was best known in the U.S. for her role as Countess Liz in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck...
...Ford, Americans enjoy finding the easy way out of their problems. By individualizing their lives and having them buck the system, rather than perform a noble action, Ford suggests that most Americans would much rather become the drug user, failure or adulterer, to be the sinner, not the saint. But Ford’s stories, though their generalizations may be accurate, apply only to a specific group of Americans who are set (or so they think) in their well-paying jobs, nuclear families, and suburban homes. A Multitude of Sins may well be a classic, but only of the aging...
...different these words are from the maudlin theatrics of our last president, that little man who couldn’t quite distinguish between right and wrong, that charming sinner, that self-absorbed adolescent who, according to friends, has lamented the fact that his presidency lacked a moment so defining as bloody Tuesday. How insincere words of righteousness would sound in that mouth of his, which said so many insincere things...
...possibilities, therefore: A sinner-well, we don't say "sinner" much anymore, let's say "criminal" ....or, better, so as not to prejudge anyone, just say "person"- either chooses evil of his own free will, or else, is not really guilty at all, no matter how grisly the crime, because he was acting only under the "compulsion of circumstances...
Conservatives denigrate and marginalize people based on their distaste--lacking any rational explanation--for the acts of love in which homosexuals engage. This marginalization occurs both when the conservative arguments are targeted squarely at homosexuals themselves and when "hate the sin, love the sinner" arguments are used. I would be denounced, and rightly so, if I argued that Catholics should not be allowed to attend Mass on the grounds that I have a distaste for the ceremony while protesting that I have no issue with Catholics themselves. Of course, when I argue for barring the practice of holding Mass...