It gives Americans a dangerous naïveté about what Updike calls the «
shameful things of life.»
Not exact matches
Two
things bother me, why jeopardize your children's security for this experiment, and why do it??? I mean everyone has doubts I their faith, but being a Christian raised by atheists, turning your back so publicly is the same as saying your faith was a joke... it is insulting to believers, a crisis
of faith is normal in
life, denouncing faith is
shameful
Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations
of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most
shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age
of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to
live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many
things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.
Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations
of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most
shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age
of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to
live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many
things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.