Word: sinning
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Asani said that, according to the Koran, it is not a sin to marry outside the Islamic faith...
...they are deviants. If they had just wanted to find sexual pleasure, they could have found willing adult female partners. These men preyed on children, the most naive of their community. Jesus said it would be better to be drowned in the sea than to lead a child into sin. Let these men drown in the sea of prison. TONY LEE LYNN Ida, Mich...
...looming and colossal evil known as Sin rips the hero from his neighborhood and shunts him to Spira, where tan, sea-faring people lash palm leaves to the bamboo ribs of beachside huts. Of course, he tries to get home, and instead gets involved with Spira’s own mission to defeat Sin, led by Yuna, a self-sacrificing young summoner and her heterogeneous gang of guardians...
Tidus has been plopped into a pre-made world, a quest already happening, a band already formed. All fantasy stories involve gangs of misfits, but you want to accrue your misfits gradually, not in a boxed set. Spira is assaulted by sin every ten years, so, every ten years, the summoners and their guardians tour the temples, learn to summon different things, and beat sin back into hiding. This is not an adventure. It’s an errand. Tidus just tags along. Of course, his pivotal importance becomes apparent; this isn’t your average decennial scavenger hunt...
...United States has absolved Arafat’s transgressions so many times that he has grown indifferent to sin. None but a fool would think he has undergone a change of heart now. Our only leverage is to make him understand that this time, the choice between peace and terror has a consequence. And that requires an ultimatum...