Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of the reason is clear from the way the investigation was first handled. The chief target was to be Section 608, and 608 is Democratic "dirt." Expiring conveniently in 1950, it leaves the present Administration without sin and free to cast stones as it sees...
...sense of moral responsibility concerning war is not limited to atomic scientists. Most generals have that sense and so do most nonscientific civilians at the top layers of Government. They do not feel it as "a sense of sin." Most of them have borne this sense of responsibility as citizens, soldiers or officials for many years. This fact does not make them more right or more loyal than Oppenheimer. Or less...
...conviction that he and his colleagues had to change the world, that they had to triumph over men who might, through stupidity and immorality, betray society-which Oppenheimer, at least, had only recently discovered, and which had become precious to him, as his salvation from what he considered the sin of Alamogordo...
...emphasis in the Episcopal Church," he says. "I also thought it contained more charming nominal Christians than any other. I missed its lack of moral drive. My religious motivation is primarily moral, and always will be. I didn't have to read Reinhold Niebuhr to know about original sin. The forces of evil are always gaining ground, and must be stopped again and again. This is a continuous battle...
...After 13 years of urging "clergy and laity, in season and out of season, to stop the sin of racial segregation," Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert E. Lucey issued a flat order to the 80 parochial schools in the archdiocese of San Antonio. "Henceforth," said he in a pastoral letter, "no Catholic child may be refused admittance to any school maintained by the archdiocese merely for reason of color, race or poverty...