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“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”

Understanding Moral Cutting Disease Capable Madness Towns Spread London Innocent Former Bombs Latter Realism Civilians Atomic Bomb Depravity Slums Moral Depravity

Book:The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

Source: The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

“It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.”

Christian Order Interest Religious Moral Christianity Horror Notes Secular Depravity Inquisition Moral Depravity

Book:Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

Source: Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

“In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.”

World Humans Order Justice Sin Moral Millions Mass Murder Commit Fallen Followers Without Love Harness Depravity Fallen World Moral Depravity

Book:Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Source: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.”

“We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.”

World War Spirit Passion Business Moral Class Economic Competition Slave Tyranny War Of The Worlds Depravity Wrongdoing Antagonism Moral Depravity

Author:Karl Barth

“Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.”