Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sugrue believes it has become less & less Catholic. American Catholics seem to him "overly concerned with money and sex, asking continually for one and condemning continuously the other. Love of money-even money for the erection of cathedrals-is the root of all evil, and prolonged concentration on one sin, particularly the old scapegoat sin of lust, is normally an indication that other sins are being covered...
...fervor to build an atom bomb for use against the Axis powers. They succeeded beyond their expectations, and many of them were haunted for years by the horror of their success. In the words of their leader, Robert Oppenheimer, wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, "they had known sin." At any rate, many of them did not want to give more years of their lives to developing in peacetime even more frightful weapons...
...sin only went outdoors and underground. The same girls, reinforced in numbers, nightly patrolled the Champs Elysees and Place Pigalle and swarmed through the nightclubs. With no police regulation save for sporadic boulevard roundups, and no medical inspection, the venereal disease rate skyrocketed...
Once upon a time, many good people considered that reading novels was a sin comparable to sloth. When good novelists, with the help of critics and changing times, made the habit respectable, fiction began to outsell nonfiction. During the past few years, the novel has lost ground so rapidly that 1951 may be put down in literary histories as the year of the great debate: What is the novel's future-if any? It is not entirely an academic question. Publishers are shying away from novels, and for a good publishers' reason: people are not rushing...
Above both judge .and psychologist, says Sir Walter, "there is a distinctive, Christian approach to wrongdoing, which is based on a distinctive estimate of the nature of wrong and of the way to put it right ... In the first place 'Sin,' as the Christian conceives it, differs from 'Crime' not only in degree but in kind. It is a morbid condition of the whole self rather than a series of overt acts ... In a certain sense, personal responsibility ... is here at its most extreme ... It is an obligation to answer not only for particular acts...