Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resist a fellow creature is a sin...
...such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of atheism and immorality the situation forebodes...
Following down the centuries, the Dean found idleness to be the sin of feudalism. Calvinism marked the disappearance of this sin among the governing classes. The Calvinists never loafed. Their religious life was vastly superior to the barons'. Calvinism "is different from all other forms of religion known, because it accepts the standards of Capitalism and defends them...
...after all," said Mr. Goldstein, "these are but superficials of this issue. The primary objection to neo-Malthusianism is that it is contrary to the natural law of human beings, it is therefore a violation of the law of God. It is the sin for which Almighty God slew Onan...
...Professor remarks with resigned but well-put cynicism that "sometimes one tires of pouring knowledge into buckets without bottoms." He receives the response that he expects, laughter, denoting a class, conscious but not convicted of sin. The dances...