Word: authoritarianism
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Although North Americans revere Simón Bolívar as South America's great Liberator, not many are aware how far to the right his political views veered in his last years. Last week those authoritarian views were again a hot political issue in Colombia...
Last week, in the midst of a campaign to scrap the existing constitution, Colombia's ruling Conservatives proclaimed that the father of the country was on their side. "We Conservatives," said the Bogota newspaper Eco National, "take pride in the illustrious ascendancy of the Liberator, with whose authoritarian ideas we are in accord...
...strip of ice, usually on an indoor rink where the ice is more even and not subject to sudden thaws. At each end of the rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull's-eye. If the stone falls short...
...conscience dictates, to make his own judgments . . . Freedom of Grace: with salvation the free gift of God, not to be earned by good deeds, not to be purchased with the coin of any realm . . . Freedom of Access to God: requiring no mediator save Christ . . . Freedom of Religion from Authoritarian Control: the vigorous denial to any government, whether political or ecclesiastical or both, of the right to dictate, underwrite or establish a 'state faith' to which all must adhere...
...Soviet Russia and her satellites know their real enemy. They freely acknowledge that the greatest barriers to the Kremlin's dream of world domination, are the freedom-loving Protestant countries. Peoples long trained in the acceptance of authoritarian control, whether temporal or spiritual, become relatively easy conquests for Communism. Peoples schooled in the concept of religious and political liberty are harder to handle...