Sins We Excuse

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. —G. K. Chesterton. ...

"The Man Who Captured Eichmann": Rationalizing Evil

The Man Who Captured Eichmann, with Robert Duvall as the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann, is based on the memoirs of Israeli operative Peter Malkin. It ...

Allure of Adultery

Chuck Colson writes in Breakpoint:

I still remember my sadness on hearing that an old friend, and someone I believed was a sincere Christian, was leaving ...

Natural Reason Looks at Marriage

Note that when natural reason (whom the heathen have followed when they wanted to be very wise), looks at married life, she turns up her nose and says: ...

Excuses

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Justifying Your Own Sins

I welcome news of the sins of others because it makes my sins appear more normal. Misery loves company.

Not My Fault

We have a society which is psychiatrized in the same sense in which medieval European society was Christianized, religionized--everything was a matter ...