Word: christs
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...most recent examples come from Europe. In Germany, a Swiss hotelman has published a bestselling book claiming that highly intelligent space travelers visited earth during man's early history and became the prototypes for the "gods" of various ancient mythologies. And in Russia a scientist has proposed that Christ was a cosmonaut...
...publishers of Däniken's book deleted his references to the extraterrestrial origins of Christianity, but a Soviet scholar has attacked the subject head-on According to an angry Izvestia editorial, Philologist Vyacheslav Zaitsev of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences has not only proposed the theory that Christ was a cosmonaut but also that the star of Bethlehem was his rocket A being from a higher civilization ("My Kingdom is not of this world"), Christ came to bring advanced social ideas of love, charity and democracy to a slave-society world. He was immune to the human death...
Striped-Pants Pansies. Hargis continued to stress the religious theme throughout the Eleventh Annual National Convention of the Christian Crusade in Tulsa earlier this month. He told the delegates that "conservative politics without a real alliance in Christ is in vain," and preached that "the hope of the Christian is in the Second Coming of Christ and nothing else, not a political victory, not even a military victory." But the choice of convention speakers left some doubt about the sincerity of such protestations...
...General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), meeting last week in Seattle, similarly denounced reparations but requested that the church redeploy funds to make more than $30 million available to fight poverty and racial discrimination. Earlier, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ created a new Commission for Racial Justice and guaranteed it a minimum...
...show will consist of the same tape that CBS decided "would be considered irreverent and offensive by a large segment of our audience" during the week of the Eisenhower funeral. CBS specifically cited a parody sermonette by Religion Satirist David Steinberg (his final line: "Let's put Christ back into Christmas and 'ch' back into Chanukah"). But more likely the network objected to the show's running gags about John Pastore, the influential chairman and Mrs. Grundy of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. For example, Guest Dan Rowan of Laugh-In gave the Senator the "fickle-finger...