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...carry it out. Nevertheless, if a member disagrees with either policy or implementation, he is again obligated to continually discuss the matter with the relevant party groups (generally his club executive). In extreme cases, he may transfer from the area of work affected by the decisions or can abstain from working on the particular program involved. Discipline, voluntarily accepted on joining, applies to all members, whatever their position. It demands that they do not publicly oppose party policy formulated in this manner...
...says, must be seen in its historic context, as a response to a particular challenge. In the first two centuries of Christian history, church leaders were forced to defend the value of procreation against Manichaeans and Gnostic heretics who saw in the Biblical counsels about virginity a commandment to abstain from sex entirely. Christians also had to defend the sanctity of life against a pagan Rome that accepted both abortion and contraception as a way of life...
...also reinforced the conviction of many of the foes of nationalization that the steel takeover is a doctrinal dinosaur in Britain's modern economy. Among them are two Labor dissidents, Desmond Donnelly and Woodrow Wyatt, who have threatened to either vote no or abstain when the White Paper comes up for debate in Parliament this week. Even from the Socialists' own point of view, argue critics with considerable logic, the money spent on nationalization might well be put to better service in the nation's elaborate structure of welfare benefits...
...affirmation that there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet. Undemanding in doctrine, Islam calls upon its adherents, if they wish to be rewarded at the Last Judgment, to praise God five times a day while kneeling toward Mecca, fast during the holy month of Ramadan, abstain from alcohol and pork, give alms, and, if possible, make the hajj. Man's sexual nature is amply served by Islam, which permits four wives-providing they are treated equally-and unlimited concubines...
...Drinking Man's Diet? For modern man, Lent is hardly more austere than the Drinking Man's Diet-and it may soon be easier still. Technically, Orthodox Christians must abstain from meat, dairy and oil products; even among the devout, the rule is strictly followed only for the first and last weeks of Lent. Protestant churches leave Lenten sacrifice up to the individual conscience, although some follow a regime similar to the one observed by U.S. Catholics: only one full meal on weekdays, plus two smaller meatless meals, voluntary sacrifice of some additional pleasure, such as smoking...