The Depths of Sin

Humankind's "imaginations are so strong and our reason so weak... that men find ways to persuade themselves, to believe any absurdity, to submit to any prostitution, rather than forgo their wishes and desires. Their reason becomes at last an eloquent advocate on the side of their passions and [they] bring themselves to believe that black is white, that vice is virtue, that folly is wisdom." -- John Adams, 1772 from Setting the World Ablaze by John Ferling