Word: devouting
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...Westerner in the country holds deep within them - that hostages, trussed and secreted away in some anonymous hide, could be surprised by soldiers from home bursting in through the door and telling them it?s going to be okay. In a house somewhere in the city?s west, three devout aid workers from a faith-based outfit known as the Christian Peacemakers Teams - Canadians Harmeet Sooden, 32, and Jim Loney, 41, and Briton Norman Kember, 74 - were freed by British special forces and Canadian law enforcement. The raid, born of intelligence extracted from a freshly captured prisoner only three hours...
...more immediate question is whether Apocalypto can repeat The Passion's success. After all, devout Christians willing to sit through Latin and Aramaic dialogue to see Christ crucified vastly outnumber Maya scholars. Gibson seems certain that the film's "kinetic energy" will make Maya language and culture "cool" enough to attract a crowd. Maya prophecy says the current world, which began 5,000 years ago, will end in 2012. So, even if Apocalypto flops, Gibson will at least have given the Maya one last chance to get the word...
Centuries ago, John Locke, a devout Christian and one of the most well-known advocates of religious toleration, wrote that, “No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it.” His vision of a civil society in which the state does not prioritize one set of beliefs over another proved to be quite appealing to the founding fathers of America, particularly those residing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Last Saturday, none other than the Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney jeopardized Locke’s vision as he announced that he would...
...House were not hard to explain, say those who have studied weather patterns between Bushland and Cheneyland. They have always been separate worlds, far more than the public image of a tight, disciplined team suggests. Bushland is by instinct more reformist, more political, more female and, in places, deeply devout. Cheneyland is more Establishment, more male, more button-down, more secretive. One man came to town worried about domestic affairs; the other was focused entirely on matters foreign, although 9/11 forced a convergence. One man wants to do the deal, find the compromise; the other avoids it like the plague...
...ignoring opportunities to contain the controversy at an early stage, the editors of Jyllands-Posten, Muslim leaders and Danish politicians all contributed to the notion that the dispute was the product of irreconcilable cultural differences. The most obvious centered on the Islamic taboo on images of the Prophet: devout Muslims consider any depiction of the Prophet blasphemous. But the Danish cartoons stirred outrage among moderate Muslims less because the cartoons depicted Muhammad than because of the way in which the Prophet was portrayed. "Eleven of the series were problematic but not outrageous," says Antoine Basbous, director of the Observatory...