Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father wouldn't approve of what I'm doing," and calls his father's methods of seeking converts "buttonholing for Jesus." Yet the younger Schellenberg remains an evangelist. When a hot day's work is done, he chats with farmer friends about the threat of evil spirits and the opportunity of gaining freedom through Jesus Christ...
...sensitivity toward local cultures has led even conservative Protestants to treat tribal religion with respect. Missionaries try to banish belief in, and fear of, evil spirits; yet they also plumb the animist religions for concepts of eternal life or of a remote "high god" or primordial creator that might be used to inspire belief in the one God of the Bible. After all, the missionaries point out, Christmas was originally a pagan rite that ancient preachers turned to good advantage...
Then the Dillingers went to work to convert tribesmen who relied on charms and fetishes to fight the evil spirits. Lorraine, a nurse, used penicillin to cure yaws and iodine to treat goiters. The medical treatment and the Dillingers' radio seemed miracles to members of the Stone Age tribe: they thought the disembodied voices belonged to their ancestors...
Another paper might examine Casablanca as the ultimate rationalization of, and sublimation of, adultery. One woman, two men. Woman has affair with man not her husband. But wait: it's all right, she thought the husband was dead. And these are desperate times, good and evil are clashing everywhere. A woman can get confused...
Nowhere was the outrage louder than in London. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons that "this slaughter of innocent people is the product of evil and depraved minds an act of callous and brutal men." Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Prior, who visited the scene, called it "a massacre without mercy ... [one of] the most cold-blooded acts of savagery [ever] carried out in Northern Ireland." Though the I.N.L.A. apparently receives little aid from North America, a conservative M.P. seized the occasion to denounce the "collection of funds for the I.R.A...