Naked and Ashamed

Human shame is a feeling of distress at our deficiencies, deformities, or absurdities--real or imagined--and especially at the uncovering of these things. ...

The Bible Bothers

Most people are bothered by those Scripture passages which they cannot understand. But for me, the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those ...

The Point of No Return

Evildoing has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life. He slips, falls back, clambers ...

Lost Responsibility

The single greatest loss in my time has been the idea that we are moral agents. Religion helped a great deal here. Religion taught that we are accountable ...

A World Without Conscience

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Emphasis on the Individual

The more seriously one takes religion, the more one should recognize that its claims are directly on the individual conscience, and only indirectly on ...

"Necessary Evil"?

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil," it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

A Job for the Great Physician

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all physicians of all the countries of the world.

Look at Your Hands

You need only ask at night before you go to bed, "What did I do to Jesus today? What did I do for Jesus today? What did I do with Jesus today?" ...

A Clear Conscience or None at All

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,

And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.