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...Methodist Church is a denomination in which smoking and drinking still carry the faint air of impropriety. Conservatism remains a powerful force in other ways: homosexuality has been openly condemned by the church as "incompatible with Christian teaching," and liberation theology is regarded by some Methodist clergy as the dogma of radical leftists. Conservative members tend to blame their leaders' increasing liberalism for a serious decline in the church. Since 1968 membership has fallen by 1.5 million, Sunday-school enrollment is down by 3 million, and American Methodists sent abroad to spread the word as missionaries are down...
...difference between the men may be that Shamir cares less about dogma than Begin did and seems more open to new approaches to the old Middle East problems. Where Begin heatedly dismissed the Palestine Liberation Organization as "the Nazis of the Middle East," Shamir, says an aide, "believes that the Palestinians are human beings with their own ambitions and expectations, forming a human community the Israelis should learn to know and to understand." Similarly, Shamir has conveyed to aides his belief that Israel is part of the Arab Middle East and should not close itself into "a modern Jewish ghetto...
...side of May's door "...with his muzzle-loading revolvers, knives, lengths of cord, gas chambers, doppelgangers, poison-bearing pins" versus a group of friends sitting on a couch, smiling encouragingly, waving brightly-coloured plastic baseball bats." It is here that Pesetsky's wisdom lies; rather than offer epigram, dogma, or role model, she generally keeps her characters' lives firmly within the Barnum & Bailey's that is their natural sphere...
...China. The best political movies of the last few years--China Syndrome or Missing, to name two--show how hard it is even for talented actors and directors to stray even slightly from the party line. Film demands the most elemental depiction of politics, boiled down to easy dogma, rather than to the essential ambiguity of most causes...
...British Journalist Ruth Brandon takes a narrow-eyed view of an obsession that haunted 19th and early 20th century life. As she cannily observes, Darwin's legacy of doubt had weakened the moral underpinnings of Victorian and American society. But it had merely replaced religious faith with another dogma: the authority of Science. New believers turned to evidence of the world beyond the senses, "proof given by mediums who could communicate with the dead, make ectoplasm appear in darkened chambers and order inanimate objects to move at will. Katherine and Margaretta Fox of Arcadia, N.Y., were the superstars...