“...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.” LyingSinHealthyTalesVengeanceHybridTricksters Author:Gregory Maguire
“You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.” KidsBornSinBabyPrayingHealthyAdultsMercyRaisesSundayLapNewbornNewborn BabyPray For Me Author:John Shelby Spong
“It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.” HumansChildrenEnoughMightWould BeChurchHuman BeingsSinImpossibleGenerationsHealthyConceptsGuiltBurdenDamageProductivePsychicsHealthy Happy Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.” WritingBookSeemsMy OwnSinPersonalityReaderHealthyOriginalsIntentionDenyCommitEnjoyedNovelistsCowardiceImaginaryInheritanceInnateCautiousPropensityOriginal SinProxy Author:Anthony Burgess