Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cynical Middle Age." Sometimes during those years, George, the pneumatic horse, let out some air, submerged, and took a look at life below the surface. Swimming around, he came upon some of the more curious aspects of U.S. politics. Allen discovered some corruption, but, he wrote, "the fortunate thing for America is that under our system nobody ever achieves absolute power and that we therefore do not become absolutely corrupt ... I am a little ashamed to confess that petty corruption doesn't shock me very much, because in my cynical middle age I have come to think...
...must resist aggressive moves on the part of the Russians," he said, "and Korea seems to be as good a place as any. But sentimentally, I wish I could admire the South Korea government. I'm afraid it's a corrupt police state...
...wished I had never been created. Love God? I hated Him!" The Devil visited Luther by night, and the monk-priest never doubted that he was real. In the dark night of his own soul, Luther found his own convictions: the whole nature of man is corrupt; man must be born again to be saved...
With his beliefs established, he was ready at 34 to begin his life work. In 1517 he nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. The Theses were a protest against the corrupt Roman Catholic practice of the day, of selling "indulgences" to the living for the reduction of the purgatorial terms of the dead...
...herself setting out to reform them. The result was a strangely dual life that has been one of the wonders and inspirations of Christian history. Though tormented by constant bad health, St. Teresa of Avila was busy and effective in a world of power politics that was dangerous and corrupt. At the same time, she explored the paths of mystical experience as few Christians have done before or since...