Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food for two days before being sentenced to whippings through three towns and expulsion from the colony. Mary Fisher and Elizabeth Williams were to face the same hostility in Cambridge. When asked by the mayor for their husbands' names, the Quakers replied that "they had no husband but Jesus Christ." The mayor promptly "denounced them as whores and ordered them to be whipped by the constable until the blood ran down their bodies...
...conditions. After the reign of Elizabeth and the collapse of the convent schools during the Reformation, women's education suffered serious reversals. Basua Makin, a female educator, wrote in 1673 that women ought to be taught Greek and Latin to make them "less idle" and better able to "understand Christ." But for all her progressive reform, she did not advocate a classical education for the majority of women...
National Council of the Churches of Christ...
...Unification Church believes the line of towering Judeo-Christian prophets begins with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and is revived with Reverend Moon. According to this view, Christ redeemed man's spirit while Moon wants to redeem the whole man; to exalt his material side as well as his spiritual. This is why the Church encourages its members to found businesses and to give generously to the Church--actually just another version of the American Protestant work and tithe ethic...
Religious leaders who support Moon are forced to agree with this argument if they want any moral and constitutional high ground to stand on, but many find its bald expression distasteful, as the National Council of Churches disapproves of religions which exalt documents or individuals whose genesis occured after Christ's. On this point Nicholas M. Buscovich, Director of the Unification Church of Massachusetts, says simply, "There was a three-year period when, in essence, Reverend Moon was the church...