Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prayer for Hindus." The International Mission Board urges its members not only to pray on behalf of Hindus, but also to use Diwali as an occasion to "lead Hindus out of their darkness." It also makes such base, unfounded claims as "Most Hindus do not have a concept of sin or of personal responsibility"--that are counter to even the most basic reading of Hindu philosophy. How much more disrespectful can the Baptists be to the more than 900 million Hindus across the globe...
...especially not in exhortations to friendship, and now they sit stone-faced, motionless. Falwell laments the murders of Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming student, and Billy Jack Gaither, the gay man clubbed to death and burned in Alabama. Falwell makes clear that, to him, homosexuality is still a sin. But he says Christians must be more vigilant about observing both halves of "that cliche," as he calls it: "Love the sinner but hate the sin...
...progress, certainly, but it would still be a stretch to call the founder of the Moral Majority a friend of the gay community. Falwell made it clear that he still opposes homosexuality, and over the years he has devoted far more energy to saving gays from their supposed sin than to saving them from physical assaults. A typical sampling of Falwell's rhetoric is the July edition of his National Liberty Journal, in which he wrote that we cannot "blame" genetics for "adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws." Most famously, Falwell urged parents to avoid the British children...
...cynic might suppose that Falwell's newfound emphasis on Christian love for gays stems from a need to appear moderate in moderate times. Faced with George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism," the religious right is on the defensive; its preoccupation with the sin of gayness seems increasingly extreme to ordinary people. This too is Matthew Shepard's legacy: in death, he served as vivid proof of the suffering that scars gay life in America. In this new climate, any evangelical might do well to lie low and preach tolerance. One good sign for Falwell: the Rev. Fred Phelps, the viciously...
...There are more deep-seated arguments against masturbation, often stemming from religious or conservative beliefs. One Mormon Web site nowscape.com/mormon/mormast--offered tips on how to stop the sinful activity which "in no way expresses the proper procreative power." It is easy to see why many women, still able to catch a sour whiff of historically male-centric garbage about whom she should please and why, might, even today, feel a bit guilty about actively pleasing themselves. One Dunster House junior commented that she "went to a Catholic school [where] a priest came in to give lectures about masturbation--and what...