He regarded the Calvinist obsession with sin and sacrifice as a superstition, and he didn't want his prize pupil's head filled with gloomy fundamentalist dogma.
He cited studies showing that 76percentt of Catholic women in the United States used contraceptive devices and that 71percentt of American priests did not regard the practice as a serious sin.
But it seems that the mere chance that one of them might subsequently be revealed to have used PEDs was enough to keep them out.Needless to say, the voters have shown no consistency over the years regarding which sins disqualify a player from consideration for the Hall.
For millennia, we have regarded the emotions as the fount of irrationality, baseness, and sin.
"Practically everything that the world loosely regards as sin is detailed in the vivid, lurid, salacious language of smut, prostitution, and dirt," the judge observed of Miller's novel.
And Andrew Sullivan, perhaps needless to say, is on the case — see especially his post today on the Church's category confusion regarding sin and crime.
She was now relegated to the conceptual realm of "those church kids," most of whom were Nigerian or otherwise African, and did not share Keisha Blake's anthropological curiosity regarding sin or her love of rap music.
In this case the change made for a better lyric, because now the singer -- whose lover has mysteriously abandoned him -- could appeal to her directly to "answer me" regarding "just what sin have I been guilty of".
Saudis often cite the assassination of King Faisal in 1975 as a warning, linking it to his attempts at reform and especially his introduction of television, which many at the time regarded as encouraging sin.
They had both committed what was regarded as the ultimate sin in the I.R.A.: becoming British informers.
The manifesto authors are indignant at the attempt to explain, to make intelligible, that atrocity - an effort they they seem to regard as the original sin of the anti-war left.
