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...major Syrian accusation was that Jordan has been "arming, training and financing" extremist elements of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which wants to topple Assad's ten-year-old regime. Syrian television recently reported that Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran had even visited Muslim Brotherhood camps near Irbid on the Jordanian side of the 240-mile common frontier. Damascus further charged that the Muslim Brotherhood, operating from clandestine camps in Jordan, has been able to launch a two-year campaign of assassinations and bombings within Syria. King Hussein has firmly denied the Syrian allegations, although he has legalized political activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Marching Back from the Brink | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Between extremist evolutionists, with their insistence on a materialistic blind-chance explanation, and extreme fundamentalist creationists, with their insistence on a first-chapter-of-Genesis explanation, there is not much room left for us Christians who years ago acknowledged the truth of evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1980 | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Meanwhile: the spectre of nuclear devastation, overpopulation, finite energy sources, apartheid--these and a handful of other world conditions made it difficult for the unsaved to accept the Simple Plan. And those whom the Majority might regard as the pseudo-saved--people who called themselves Christian but not Fundamentalist--had accepted the simple plan but were looking for the Next Step. There was something unsettling about knowing that you were saved but that millions of little kids were starving to death around the world...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: They Know Not What They Do | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

...Falwell, host of "Old Time Gospel Hour"), letters that address the receiver as "Dear Friend" are sent by the millions, attacking single issues such as abortion, busing, gay rights, pornography, ERA, and even certain textbooks. Other letters take a more propagandistic approach, publishing general views on defense spending, and fundamentalist notions of the traditional family life in America. Regardless of the content these letters share one thing: they are answered with money...

Author: By Lucy M. Schulte, | Title: The Awkward Age | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

...change--is needed. "You've heard the old saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat," he says. "I try in my letters to give people lots of options." But one political movement Ratliff rejects absolutely is the currently resurgent far right, especially the fundamentalist Christian "Moral Majority" faction. "I'm afraid I'm not a very tolerant person," he says--his letters fulminate against what he terms the hypocrisy of preachers like Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell. And Ratliff is one adversary that knows his Scripture: "To right wing evangelicals, Jesus says, 'You call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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