congregants, “The people of our day need a keener sense of moral direction to keep them from drifting,” decrying the oft-cited explanation “Most everybody does it, therefore it must be all right.” The reverend, a slender man who spoke deliberately, concluded with a message: “Many of us achieve self-approval by cheap and superficial methods, concocting clever excuses to make what we want to do seem admirable,” he said, “so that we can condone our actions and like ourselves.”
