Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramakrishna (1836-86) barely knew how to read or write. To millions in India and elsewhere he is an authentic Incarnation of God-in a class with Buddha, Krishna, Christ. His unique claim to fame is that he was the first prophet in history actually to practice the ways not only of all the principal Hindu sects but also Christianity and Islam...
Then there was Epstein's Christ, which one outraged cleric compared (with Empire inclusiveness) to "some degraded Chaldean or African . . . an Asiatic, American or Hun . . . some emaciated Hindu or badly grown Egyptian...
...Many a U.S. religionist of the Pentacostal or "Holy Roller" variety believes that Christ's statement to His disciples after the Resurrection ("In my name . . . they shall take up serpents") means literally what it says. In 1940 Kentucky banned snakes in church services. Last week, in the first test case under this law, the State Court of Appeals upheld $50 fines on three men and two women for bringing rattlesnakes to church...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) takes itself very seriously as an international organization-though all but 70,000 of its 892,000 members live in the U.S. And to Mormons the utterances of their First Presidency (President Heber Jedediah Grant and his two counselors) are a divinely inspired part of the continuous revelations of God. These two facts last week produced a First Presidency message to the semiannual Mormon conference at Salt Lake City whose impartial stand on the war closely resembled the attitude of the Pope...
...direct descendants of Founder Joseph followed his widow Emma into the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (140,000 members) with headquarters at Independence, Mo. They still hotly insist that Joseph had only one wife instead of the 28 claimed for him by Utah Mormons, ask why, if he had five children by Emma, he had none by the other...