tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post116165032192015836..comments2023-09-22T15:44:10.411-04:00Comments on CUUMBAYA: Our most intractable sinJoel Monkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631333436948102576noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post-1161687580506263322006-10-24T06:59:00.000-04:002006-10-24T06:59:00.000-04:00re: Reinhold Niebuhr, built a theological system a...re: <EM>Reinhold Niebuhr, built a theological system around the notion of national hubris. He observed how common it is for nations to think of themselves as standing for the good and the right, and therefore seeing any competing nation as a threat to goodness.</EM><BR/><BR/>Read Mark L. Kleinman's <A HREF="http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/book%20pages/kleinman%20world.html" REL="nofollow">A World of Hope, A World of Fear<BR/>Henry A. Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, and American Liberalism</A> for how Niebuhr evolved from the notions above from <EM>Moral Man and Immoral Society</EM> to the point where he recognized some regimes so beyond the pale -some politics so absolutely evil- that we do in fact get the <EM>crusade</EM> between Good and Evil.<BR/><BR/>Kleinman thought it a bad evolution and that Henry Wallace offered something better, although I don't think he succeeds with the case.<BR/><BR/>But it is good to see UU's talk about sin.Bill Baarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095486926836836714noreply@blogger.com