Word: believerism
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Lopez decided that his vocalist, whom he had first billed as Betty Jane, deserved a new name. A firm believer in numerology, he let the numbers lead him to "Hutton." "I tried to get a vibration that would make her a lot of money," he says. "It was a five...
Sir: I would like to suggest a change in the rules for the new game invented by Father de Gioia. As a Lutheran, it seems to me that it would be more logical to have the player who stops on square 49 discontinue his trip to the "Holy Father" . . . Every...
"Any believer who has passed through the excavated necropolis, who has observed how its street leads directly below the foundations of the first southern bronze pillar of the Bernini altar, and thus into the immediate vicinity of the place assigned by Christian tradition to St. Peter's tomb, succumbs...
The author considers these three religions from a philosophical, not a practical, point of view. Judaism, he says, is a covenant which binds together one chosen group of people in an exclusive pact with God. Catholicism "is the enterprise of establishing in some effective fashion a synthesized tradition which will...
Religion is not an objective thing; this is what differentiates the believer from the student of religions practices. The analyses in this book, of the three traditions, are the observations of a particularly acute student. The solution offered is also that of a student and disregards too much the psychology...