Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first creation, God himself used to talk to the people and tell them what to do. Way after, Christ came among the white people and told the people what to do . . . White people have everything . . . The Indian got nothing. But in a little while, toward the last, God gave us peyote; that's how we happened to find...
With the organization of the Native American Church (approximately 1918), the peyote cult was formally Christianized. Members of the church believe in the Trinity and in the divinity of Christ; peyote helps them experience their faith as an immediate reality. According to one anthropologist the Indians say: "A white man uses prayers out of a book; they are just words on his lips. But with us, peyote teaches us to talk from our hearts...
Native American Church for breaking this law. "They have taken everything from the Indian," said Dale. "Now, through their missionaries, they want to take our last possession, our lifeline, our religion . . . We accept Jesus Christ and the Bible. We are Christians...
...Christ as a Corporal. This is the fable: in the last year of the war, 1918, a French infantry regiment of General Gragnon's crack division is ordered to attack the German line. Officers and noncoms leap from the trench on signal, but the men mutiny and refuse to attack. Gragnon, a dedicated soldier and a good general, goes to the commander in chief and demands that the entire regiment be executed. But odd things have been happening all along the Western front. For one thing, the Germans seem to know about the mutiny in advance, yet fail...
...illiterate French corporal, who is drawn in Christlike dimensions and has attracted to himself twelve disciples. The 13 roam the Allied front on leave, even, it is believed, cross no man's land to carry to the Germans the message of peace-on-earth. The corporal, the Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate son of the French marshal, generalissimo...