A half -
century after the Nazis began their persecution of the Jews, a process demanding, in Hilberg's words, that «moral obstacles must be removed — the internal conflicts must somehow be
resolved,» an American launch control officer at an Intercontinental Ballistics Missile base, cited in David Barash and Judith Lipton's Stop Nuclear War (Grove, 1982), indicated that «we have two tasks: The first is not to let people go off their rockers.
On another occasion when
after a revival in Wales the clergy
resolved to put away their concubines, the bishop actually forbade them because he would lose the revenue derived from the tax on such infractions of the canon law.64 The abolition of clerical concubinage was a major item on the docket alike of the Protestant and the Catholic reformers of the sixteenth
century.