Word: christian
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...illiterate--she has a bachelor's degree in history from North Texas State University. She's not a political novice--she's a Republican precinct committee member and has held county-wide office. And she doesn't spend much time watching television evangelists or Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. But, come May and the less-than-crucial Oregon primary, mom will be casting her ballot for the television broadcaster from Virginia...
...question-and-answer session after the film, Samuel Levy, who identified himself as a former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal in Mozambique, said that "Killing a Dream" was itself a piece of "disinformation...
...carried the young in 1984. A 1979 study by the Princeton Religion Research Center found that 54% of Evangelicals are under 50 years of age -- a finding confirmed impressionistically when one travels with Robertson. His crowds are often young parents bringing their children with them. In terms of education, Christian schools, which exact long study hours as well as a strict social code, are opening at the rate of one a day, a movement surpassed earlier only by Roman Catholic parochial schools, which raised poor immigrants to high educational levels. The Christian schools, like the original Catholic ones, are founded...
...evangelist. Some people who disapprove of this may be spending ten times that amount for time with a therapist or counseling group, with results not necessarily more satisfying. Religious people of various kinds may feel insulted if Robertson's belief is ridiculed. There are many products of Christian schools reading sophisticated defenses of their position, books like C.S. Lewis' Miracles: A Preliminary Study...
...area of foreign affairs and economics, the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club program shows little expertise. At a debate Sunday night he claimed that the Soviets had placed 25 nuclear missiles in Cuba and in previous statements he has promised to send aid to Polish rebels and to make future wars short because "we could have won Vietnam in a week or two." To solve the budget deficit, Robertson favors a "year of jubilee" in which all debts would be forgiven and has proposed selling the U.S. Post Office to raise revenue...