Sentences with phrase «damned human race»
The Milwaukee jury's refusal to accept his argument that he was only exercising his artistic freedom simply highlighted the hypocrisy of the damned human race that so appalled Twain's Satan and such of his epigones as the late Lenny Bruce — whose scatological humor, as the late Ralph Gleason once pointed out in Rolling Stone, «challenged society at its very roots.»
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If such a metaphysical reversal tends to spread confusion, disgust, and despair among the damned human race — at the same time blurring the distinction between malevolent and benevolent adversaries — it is still possible for toughened optimists to believe that this is only the destruction that precedes fresh creation.
It is likely that the latter no more believes in Satan than Twain did, and it is likely too that he is less concerned with improving the damned human race than with undermining its pieties with a hermeneutic of suspicion, perhaps employing a flexible tongue to anatomize its absurd claim to be superior among creatures.
Satan, however, becomes the cool and utterly reliable inside - dopester who, in Twain's posthumously published Letters from the Earth, visits Earth and reports back to his celestial friends Michael and Gabriel about the stupidities, inconsistencies, and malevolence of what Twain elsewhere calls «the damned human race.»
As a professional bullshit detector, his only course is to expose as fraudulent the enchantments that have always kept the damned human race in thrall to his grand Adversary, but he must do this while striving to re-enchant it in his own darkly romantic terms.
Not exact matches
If only those who are exposed to the gospel and express explicit faith in Jesus Christ receive salvation, I reasoned, then that would mean the majority of the human race is damned to hell simply for being born at the wrong place and the wrong time.
Both Pelagius and Augustine had agreed that the great majority of the human race were damned; they differed only on the question of the basis of that damnation.