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...public policy. There is no greater pathology in religion than that of confusing one's own will with God's. As for Americans, for whom so many presume to speak, we need to be wary of the God-is-on-our-side rhetoric. Politicians who worship at the altar of Reed's agenda are in danger of losing their souls. (THE REV.) ALAN JONES, Dean Grace Cathedral San Francisco...
...assuaged in December, when Lieut. Shannon Workman, an EA-6B Prowler pilot, was sent ashore because she had trouble landing her radar-jamming jet. (A male pilot was sent home for the same reason.) Female aviators were relieved as well. "Nobody wants lives on the carrier sacrificed on the altar of political correctness," said Lieut. Commander Janet Marnane, an F-14 radar intercept officer...
...this devil-spawnedpunk is an arteest, a sculptoor, and his big project is this altar to the devil that he's building out of the bodies he kills and collects (correction--the women's bodies he collects. He killed a man, too, but must have thought the corpse wasn't aesthetically pleasing enought to incorporate...
...cliche's continue. There's Hatch's young virgin daughter tied to the altar of the killer-devil spawned-punk's artistic masterpiece, screaming "Daddeeeeeey!" There's the doctor, who has realized his wrongdoings and runs off to grab Hatch right before he dies in order to say, "Forgive me..." In the end, of course, Hatch saves his daughter and wife hero-style. He slings his arm over each woman, and the family walks with synchronized strides into the dawn, having overcome tragedy and all the closer...
...narrator and hero of The Cunning Man is Jonathan Hullah, M.D., who was present at St. Aidan's Church in Toronto when Father Ninian Hobbes collapsed and died. Also on the altar that day was Hullah's old friend from prep-school days, Father Charles Iredale, who shooed the physician away when he approached the stricken celebrant. "We were members of two rival priesthoods," Hullah muses, "he the Man of God and I the Man of Science...