sinner

“Even as sinners, with our biggest mistakes, we always tried to be humbled.”

And “Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.”

The arcane theological dispute concerned the precise meaning of Jesus’ suffering during crucifixion, which Pynchon wrote was not the true source of sinners’ redemption — the larger example of the prophet’s life was.

The biggest sinner in this is Kevin McCarthy, because for three weeks between Jan. 6 and when Kevin McCarthy went to Mar-a-Lago, the Republican Party did not know what its future was.

Perhaps out of a shared sense of guilt, Oppenheimer yearns to give these sinners a chance to atone for their mistakes.