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One Of The Many Burdens Of The Person Professing Christianity Has Always Been The Odium Likely To Be Heaped Upon Him By Fellow Christians Quick To Smell Out, Denounce And Punish Fraud, Hypocrisy And General Unworthiness Among Those Who Assert The Faith. In Ruder Days, Disputes About What Constituted A Fully Qualified Christian Often Led To Sordid Quarrels In Which The Disputants Tortured, Burned And Hanged Each Other In The Conviction That Torture, Burning And Hanging Were Christian Things To Do.

We Honor Ambition, We Reward Greed, We Celebrate Materialism, We Worship Acquisitiveness, We Commercialize Art, We Cherish Success And Then We Bark At The Young About The Gentle Arts Of The Spirit. The Kids Know That If We Really Valued Learning, We Would Pay Our Teachers What We Pay Our Lawyers And Stockbrokers. If We Valued Art, We Would Not Measure It By Its Capacity To Produce Profits. If We Regarded Literature As Important, We Would Remove It From The Celebrity Sweepstakes And Spend A Little Money On Our Libraries.

Skinny Women Don't Enjoy Being Told They're Skinny Nowadays. They Enjoy Telling You How They Got That Way, As Though Starvation Were An Achievement.

What The New Yorker Calls Home Would Seem Like A Couple Of Closets To Most Americans, Yet He Manages Not Only To Live There But Also To Grow Trees And Cockroaches Right On The Premises.

The Lobbies Of The New Hotels And The Pan American Building Exhale A Chill As From The Unopened Pharaonic Tombs... And In Their Marble Labyrinths There Is An Evil Presence That Hates Warmth And Sunlight.