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Proponents of fundamentalist schools have forgotten one of the basic teachings of the Bible, which is that the Christian is to respect and obey the government. In taking an arrogant, self-righteous position, the supporters of Christian schools not only reproach the Bible, but insult those who work in the public schools. The public system does work, but it works better when we stay to build rather than when we desert to experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...activists. But a majority of the evangelical and fundamentalist missionaries either sympathize with rightist regimes or accept the status quo and insist that spiritual conversion, not political action, is the true work of the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Missionary | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

...modern history. The makeshift courtroom is an exhibition hall at the Cairo fairgrounds, where 280 prisoners are on display in huge steel cages. Another 20 defendants are still at large, and two have died in prison. Most of the prisoners are accused of being members of a Muslim fundamentalist group known as al Jihad (Holy War), and many are linked with the violence that broke out in the Upper Egyptian city of Asyut following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981. Nineteen of the defendants were among those sentenced last March in the Sadat murder trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yearning for Calm and Stability | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

This tale has been passed along for generations by Gaelic-speaking fundamentalist Scots, who disapprove of the happy spirit of Christmas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holidays 1010a. 'The Meaning of Christmas' | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...professes to believe that the Canadian officials who brought the criminal charges may not like some of his and Van Andel's outspoken stands on free enterprise or their support of organizations of the right, such as the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Morality in Media, and various fundamentalist Christian organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Border Trouble | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

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