Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vogel had also got her kids to explore the issue on the Internet. They found the American Anti-Slavery Group and through it the website of a Swiss-based human-rights group, Christian Solidarity International, which specializes in redeeming victims of religious oppression held in bondage. The children learned that for $50 to $100, they could, through Christian Solidarity, buy the freedom of a Sudanese slave. The group has kept meticulous records and case histories of the 4,016 people, mostly of the Dinka tribe, it has rescued so far. It takes advantage of the market to free the people...
...envelope also featured a "Personal Bible," a leaflet depicting the developmental landmarks of an eight-week-old fetus, and a pamphlet entitled "College Professor's Solution," which describes the triumph of a Christian student over "infidels" in a debate over the Bible...
...cloud of impeachment looms over President Clinton, and we enter a special time in the Jewish and Christian calendars, it is worth examining anew the relationship of politics, religion and morality...
Some 'sell out' and unabashedly link religion with politics: the Christian Coalition is a prime example. Others, like Ronald Reagan, deeply identify themselves with religious ideas and infuse their speeches with religious imagery. Even the ostensibly non-religious--or those who are privately religious but feel that religion has no place in politics--still play the "God card," as evidenced by President Clinton's well-choreographed visits to church (arm-in-arm with Hillary) whenever he finds himself in yet another crisis. So we are left with the supreme conceit. Politicians wag their fingers at those...
...image--the parinirvana, or scene of the dead Buddha encircled by a crowd of his mourning disciples. You only need to try to imagine a Western equivalent to this--a deposition from the cross, say, with Christ as a carrot--to realize what a gulf lay between Buddhist and Christian attitudes. Part of Jakuchu's point is that his image is not merely blasphemous, and was not thought to be: radishes, like all other living things, have their Buddha nature. And yet it's funny--as much of a joke as one of the Zen classics in the show: Sengai...