Word: devouting
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...religious sects are referred to by the term Orthodox, whereas the word fundamentalist has negative connotations. Obviously, this is why Orthodox Jews take offense when called fundamentalist. In their literal sense, the terms "fundamentalist" and "Orthodox" refer to very similar ideas. The word fundamentalist means someone who is very devout and believes that every word of their holy text is true. The term Orthodox refers to a religious sect of Judaism that closely follows the laws of the Torah, Both words have a very similar literal meaning. However, they have very different connotations. "Orthodox" connotes a legitimate religious sect; "fundamentalist...
Keating's pretensions had a pious side too: a devout Roman Catholic, he gave millions in personal and corporate funds to charities, including Mother Teresa. Former Senator Dennis DeConcini, whose political career was wrecked by his association with Keating, remembers meeting Mother Teresa in Washington: "I introduced myself as coming from Arizona, and she asked, 'How is my friend Charlie...
...Raised a devout Roman Catholic in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, she left home at 22 to study in England, eventually becoming an interpreter for the Red Cross. At 30, she met and married a German doctor but left him, amicably she says, to become a Buddhist nun and pursue enlightenment in India. Her recognition as a spiritual leader came rather suddenly in 1982 when she tried to buy a copy of the Hindu sacred work the Bhagavad-Gita that she says she saw in a shop along the Ganges. The shopkeepers said there were none in stock; she insisted...
...stayed awake throughout the flight to watch over his mother and his younger brother. They were traveling to a land they did not know and whose language they did not speak. It would be a place where they would receive new names and new identities. Their father, a devout Christian who now called himself Paul, had picked the boys' American names from the Bible. Thus it came to pass that Ho Da-i became David Ho and his younger brother became Phillip. For a few more years, Phillip would refer to David by the Chinese honorific for "older brother"; becoming...
Incumbent Seastrand faces a spirited challenge from Walter Capps in this moderately Republican district. As a G.O.P. freshman she pushed for welfare reform, including a two-year limit on benefits and, as part of her Personal Responsibility Act, complete prohibition on welfare to minor mothers. Seastrand, a devout Christian, is ardently pro-life and anti-gay and sometimes spices her politics with fire and brimstone, once calling California's quakes, floods and fires "God's wrath...