In All Quiet on the Western Front Eric Marie Remarque wrote this book to stress the effects that war had upon people. How it shattered lives, dreams and ambitions. How the "older" generations tried to make war sound so promising, and glorious, while all along they were lying to thems...

In his writing on critical theology, Gregory Baum defines social sin as "collective blindness, group-egotism, and the pursuit of a national life that betrays the covenant and violates the divine command" (Baum 198). Baum goes on to describe foul levels of social sin that can be applied to ...