Word: crucifixions
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...Turks are bold enough to practice their brutality on American G.I.s, envision if you can the crucifixion the Armenians endured. And to those in charge who turn their backs for the sake of a financed alliance, I say shame, and damn such diplomacy...
...dupe us. The gospel hymn is a Victorian development-sentimental and good for nothing. Its message is that everything is blessed and peaceful. That's not the message of Christ. The message of Christ is 'Are you able to endure all things as I endure them-even crucifixion?'"' If hymns must be sung, Wiant would prefer such Reformation hymns as A Mighty Fortress Is Our God and 0 God, Our Help in Ages Past...
...Balkan tavern during one of his campaigns) and mother of Constantine the Great. Converted to Christianity about 312, Helena later journeyed to the Holy Land, went to Calvary, and (wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler Ambrose did not mention the tunic, but tradition has it that she gave it to the city of Trier (Augusta Treverorum to the Romans), along with...
...phonograph played Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, Crucifixion, and a lithe girl danced an "interpretation" to the cool-cat words: "He was a kind of carpenter from a square-type place like Galilee . . . who said the cat who really laid it on us all was his Dad ..." Another amateur actor played the role of Christ crucified: "I was framed . . . Maybe that lawyer Judas can swing it. Otherwise I've had it ... The Roman fuzz bugged me all night. They didn't like my sandals and beard...
...sense, a socialist lecturing to atheists on political economy is every bit as much preaching to them about the salvation of their souls--propter nos homines at propter nostram salutem--as a priest addressing the faithful about the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. The aim is not heaven, however, but utopia--and a false utopia will no more do than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyres and the prophets. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of wordly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther...