Word: crucifixions
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...right emblem for this show. Religious and national myths are made, not born; their depiction in art involves much staging, construction and editing, under the eye of cultural agreement. Whatever the crucifixion of a Jew on a knoll 2,000 years ago looked like, it wasn't Tintoretto. And the American West of the 19th century was rarely what American artists set out to make it seem...
Despite Christianity's centuries of opposition to paganism, some old-line churches are opening up to the Goddess. A witch teaches in an institute at the Roman Catholic Holy Names College in California. A book by two United Methodist pastors proposes experimental Bible readings about the crucifixion that replace Jesus with Sophia (Wisdom), a name for the divine personality used by Goddess-minded Christians...
...Harvard, the prince has not left these tactics behind--his bodyguards attacked two Crimson reporters two weeks ago. And we can't ignore that the country the prince represents has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. State Department for torture, amputation, beheading, stoning and crucifixion...
...WASHINGTON this summer, Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan told an audience of 15,000 enthusiastic supporters, "There is no better example of crucifixion in the modern era than Marion Barry." He went on to declare, "Black politics is a threat to white racism. Could this be the reason for the attack upon our mayor...
...luminaries are what Washington Post columnist Judy Mann calls the "fringe ministers." First there is Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. He held massive rallies in Washington, the minor theme of which was the crucifixion of Barry by white racist America; the major theme was the crucifixion of black America by same. His message, the purest of race hatred, was attended by Barry (and wife and young son) and met with wild enthusiasm by a crowd...