Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President of all Americans, not just his hard-core conservative supporters. He was out in the center of history's surging stream, where events-not dogma-dictate action for survival. For almost the first time, he seemed ready to move beyond old ideas, old cronies. About the middle of July, Reagan began to consider adopting the tax foundling that had been midwifed by Dole's committee. As August approached, the President's commitment to the plan...
...shame" in concert, you almost have to laugh, and by their commanding presence on stage, they betray the happy revelation that maybe they aren't that hardened after all. Maybe Marxism can even be fun: their lyrics merely good principles to go along with, not written in stone dogma...
...build their practices in a vacuum, or by being mean to people. The great majority of women demand artificially doctored maternity. To rely on one's own innate ability to give birth is generally considered less safe, more painful and plain oldfashioned. Doctors have engendered this false dogma, but women have embraced it enthusiastically. It is up to mothers as well as doctors to make our way of birth simpler and more human...
...effectually signified by the bread and wine, which, in this mystery, become his body and blood." But last month the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a series of frosty "observations" on the all-important commission report, faulting the Anglicans for refusing to accept "transubstantiation." (This dogma means that while appearances remain the same, the words of consecration by a priest at Mass transform the entire substance of the bread and wine into Christ's literal body and blood.) However, Eastern Orthodoxy does not require any such formulation either, and Rome nevertheless recognizes its sacraments...
Annoyed and angered that Reverend Moon was preying specifically on the occasionally idealistic, always pressure racked Yale student we decided to form SCROD Using out own theology, religious dogma, diagrams and publicity stunts, we staged an ideological holy war, hoping to dissuade with humor any student who might feel drawn to join the Moonies...