Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfair and unmet expectations for our politics have led to the creation of a cynicism industry, led by talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, whose book, See, I Told You So, continues to top the bestseller lists. Limbaugh feeds off this growing disillusionment with government to promote himself. His tactics are not unlike those of Ross Perot. (Expect him to share a ticket with Perot...
...world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David -- is retrospective mythmaking by writers who had "already decided on the transcendental importance of the adult Jesus," Crossan says. The journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that the man the Bible calls his brother James was the eldest child. Crossan argues that Jesus did not cure anyone but that he did "heal" people by refusing to ostracize them...
...some, Satan even provides lessons in piety. The Sufis, the mystics of Islam, imagined that the pride of Iblis may have been blind ideological purity, a supremely flawed political correctness. According to one account, when he was asked to bow before Adam, God's newest and best-beloved creation, Iblis refused. "There is only one God," he declared, "and I will make obeisance only to Him." More of a monotheist than God himself, Iblis was banished from Heaven...
Ebery and Ehrlich also said they discussed other ways of improving the procedure for purchasing sourcebooks, including the creation of two lines, one for cash purchases and one for term bill purchases...
What's needed is a strong and coherent drug strategy that focuses on treatment more than punishment, and Clinton knows it. "If I've fallen short this year," the President recently told Rolling Stone, it's in ((the creation of)) prevention programs." Clinton needs to recall and act on his earlier words. If he doesn't, the latest war on crime will probably be no more successful than its predecessors, and some future presidential candidate will echo Clinton on Bush. What the President said as a candidate is true: you can't get serious about crime without getting serious about...