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...care squat about the sick and the poor. And you need to change; you need to repent.'" He became fond of repeating that the Bible has 2,000 verses dedicated to the poor and that the Gospel of Matthew contains not only the Great Commission, in which Christ bids his disciples to spread his word, but also the great commandment, in which he tells the Pharisees to love thy neighbor as thyself...
...Crusaders trying to drive Arabs out of the Holy Land committed countless atrocities. Shortly after Columbus made his first trip, the Spanish Inquisition began taking action against Jews and, later, Muslims. In 1637 the Pequot Indian tribe was murdered by Massachusetts militiamen who called themselves ''faithful followers of Jesus Christ.'' After the Spanish-American War, American soldiers chased down Filipino rebels and burned their villages because the U.S. claimed the right to Christianize them. Today Christian Serbs are slaughtering Bosnian Muslims, and antiabortion fanatics wave their Bibles in one hand and torch family-planning clinics with the other. When...
...Courting the Catholic Vote Re TIME's article "How America Decides": Perhaps Amy Sullivan could have rephrased her last sentence [July 14]. The "very full bowl of wafers" that she refers to is the body of Jesus Christ. Rita Healy, Charlotte, North Carolina...
Shame on Sullivan for her reference to a "bowl of wafers." And shame on the Catholic priest for denying Christ to Douglas Kmiec for endorsing Barack Obama. Judith N. Thelen, CUMBERLAND...
...TIME's article "how america decides": Perhaps Amy Sullivan could have rephrased her last sentence [July 14]. The "very full bowl of wafers" that she refers to is the body of Jesus Christ. Rita Healy, CHARLOTTE...