Word: properness
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Though Aaron left his dye fixture, acid and material at home in Cortez, Colo., he admits to nosing around his Thayer basement laundry room for the proper location to recreate his tie-dying factory. In Cortez, he sold T-shirts for $15 a pop at the local record shop and he has already received a number of requests for his creations from eager Harvard freshmen. Most of them say its cool that I wear tie-dye, he says. But some dont...
...proper role of religion to absolve human beings of responsibility for their own evil actions. It is not the proper role of religion to absolve human beings of their responsibility to prevent the evil actions of others. The reality of ultimate Divine justice does not prevent human beings from being commanded to establish justice, as best they can, on their...
...important and proper role of religion to provide comfort in the face of tragedy. As clergy, we seek where possible to engage in theodicy, in the justification of Divine ways to human beings. Chief among the Divine ways that require justification is the universality and often randomness of death...
...proper role of religion to provide comfort in the face of evil. Evil is the product of human choice, and religion should inspire, develop and channel burning outrage at human violations of the Divine creation. Religion should encourage and demand that human beings take responsibility for correcting evil rather than accepting...
...proper role of religion to bring human beings to an awareness of the universality of sin. But this awareness must not be allowed to metastasize into a lack of sensitivity to the degrees of evil in this world. The desire not to be judgmental must not make judgement impossible, and thus make injustice inevitable...