Word: sinning
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...synthesis, or "sinthesis" as I prefer to call it. The formula is exactly Hegelian. You do your thesis. It drives you crazy, so you avoid it with anti-thesis. Together thesis and anti-thesis explode in a giant ball of fire that, if you're lucky, leaves you with sin-thesis...
Anderson strongly condemns Gomes and has repeatedly urged that he resign as minister "unless he professes homosexuality to be a sin within the Christian religion...
From this vantage point, human sexuality seems little more than a wondrous accident, born of a kind of original sin among protozoa. Most population biologists, however, believe sex was maintained over evolutionary time because it somehow enhanced survival. The mixing and matching of parental genes, they argue, provide organisms with a novel mechanism for generating genetically different offspring, thereby increasing the odds that their progeny could exploit new niches in a changing environment and, by virtue of their diversity, have a better chance of surviving the assaults of bacteria and other tiny germs that rapidly evolve tricks for eluding their...
Martins was summarily banished to the sin-bin with a 10-minute misconduct penalty...
...economy, for American destiny? We are seized with a sudden fear: maybe the current recession is not just a cyclical downturn, which would make it tolerable, but the harbinger of long- term decline. Maybe the bill for the cold war (or the Decade of Greed or the wages of sin -- pick your poison) has come due, and we are now beginning our inexorable descent. Maybe this is not America 1945 but Britain 1945: triumphant, exhausted and finished...