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...declared: "The National Liberation Front is neither national nor liberating, but it is a front. Communism is one thing as a theory for discussion in this country, but it is quite another in those small countries of Asia where its teeth are bared and its appetite consuming. Its creed is terror, murder, assassination." To make sure that the Administration's congressional critics got the point, Humphrey wondered aloud why some of them "always suggest what we might give up" in order to bring about negotiations. "Why not ask what Hanoi might give...
Growth v. Pilgrimage. Karl Barth has pointed out, said Presbyterian John Oliver Nelson, that the difference between Catholics and Protestants begins with the first word of the Creed. For the Protestant, credo is a creative assertion and a declaration; for the Catholic, a statement of acceptance and assent. It is no wonder, then, added Dean John Coburn of Massachusetts' Episcopal Theological Seminary, that even the language of spirituality in the two traditions differs. "In the Catholic world," he said, "spirituality is interpreted to be the growth in grace that comes in the life of an individual member...
...live simply by the Gospel alone, the early German Mennonites were killed or outlawed by Catholics and Protestants alike. A century later, England's George Fox and the Friends (now 122,000 strong in the U.S.) were persecuted for trying to build a church free of ritual, creed or priest and based on God's "Inner Light," granted to every man. The turn of the 18th century saw the birth of the pietistic, back-to-the-Bible Brethren movement in Germany-a reaction against the still remembered horrors of the Thirty Years' War and the spiritual rigidities...
Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal. The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation...God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear...
Nonetheless, these two 21-year-old and one 19-year-old have ploted since last spring to overthrow a whole way of life. Their banner reads "SEX," their creed is written on the circuits of a computer, and their initial organized uprising is called Operation Match...