Word: sinning
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...mind, who noted in his sermon “Woe to Drunkards” that “a Beast will drink no more than shall do him good; and therefore a Drunkard is worse than a Beast. Reason is that whereby a man Excels a Beast; but this Sin depriveth him of his Excellency.”Our drunken interlocutor is indeed bestial. He doesn’t say anything as he runs by us; it’s more of an inhuman howl. Errrrrggh! His mate is slapping him on the rear and hoisting aloft his shirt?...
...into hijabs. Western culture - it is true - is wildly sexualized and lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects human commonalities. The women who wear it want to observe fellow citizens, but remain unseen, as if they were cctv cameras...
...some rocking accordion. (Yes, accordions can rock.) She even experiments with reggaeton on Primer Da but makes it her own by adding Spanish guitar. The title track recalls a Yellow Submarine--era Beatles--as digested by Mexico. But it's the effortless singing and light tropical beat on Sin Documentos that catch Venegas at her swayworthy best...
...from. However, none of my five English credits satisfied the advisors at the Core Office. They did not ask for any papers produced in the classes or even syllabi. Those things hardly matter, after all, when, according to their reasoning, the lack of a final exam was a mortal sin for any class wishing to fulfill a Core requirement...
...message was directed at the West, at its disavowal of religious authority and its embrace of what Benedict called "the subjective 'conscience.'" For Benedict, if your conscience tells you something that differs from his teaching, it is a false conscience, a sign not of personal integrity but of sin. And so he has silenced conscientious dissent within the church and insisted on absolutism in matters like abortion, end-of-life decisions, priestly celibacy, the role of women, homosexuality and interfaith dialogue...