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...those respondents, 62% said they "thought less" of the adulterous husbands, while 56% "thought less" of the adulterous wives. These numbers are significantly lower than the previously cited condemnations of adultery in the abstract, suggesting that Americans tend to follow the dictum of hating the sin, not the sinner...
...than a denial that salvation is a no-strings-attached gift from God. The Joint Declaration, says emeritus Yale theologian George Lindbeck, who helped draft earlier efforts, reflects the conclusion that Catholicism never denied justification through grace; it was simply more focused on the human drama of the transformed sinner than on the exclusively divine origin of his or her transformation. "The two descriptions of salvation don't contradict each other," he insists...
...bags. Even today, Gary Hart, who was once Warren Beatty's presidential candidate, would probably not get the benefit of the doubt that Bill Clinton is receiving. There was something holier-than-thou about Hart that folks just didn't cotton to. Bill Clinton comes across as a struggling sinner and never implies that he's better than the people who voted for him. At his press conference last week Clinton noted that critics could affect his reputation but not his character. Pretty cool...
...National Baptist Convention after he allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars, we're sticking with the President come hell, high water, or a new plague of bimbos. As Jesse Jackson, who has become Clinton's Billy Graham, puts it, blacks tend to reject the sin but not the sinner. We believe in forgiveness--when transgressors...
...Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Of course, no such explanations precede the descriptions of students who "do it all." In the article on students who don't do anything, the word "slacker" could have easily been replaced with the word "sinner" without changing the article in the least--in fact, the article was even titled "True Confessions of a Harvard Slacker." Even more telling is the fact that while the six students in "Eight Days a Week" are identified by name, class year, concentration and House, the two "slackers" interviewed...