Word: godly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meetings with company executives, Jackson was more likely to quote the bible than the law, to appeal to God over pragmatic political considerations...
...world do you fight the man when he comes into the room and starts right off with a prayer that God will help you see the light?" agonized one corporate official, according to Frady...
...perfect servant," he declared at the Democratic convention in 1984. "I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with...
...Thank God they didn't beat us up," he adds...
That is a bit of an oversimplification, but American Reform had long defined itself by its distance from what the skullcap represented. Its founders in 1824 were moved both by the Enlightenment idea that humans could better approach God through reason than through unquestioning faith and ceremony and by an urge to create a sleek American Judaism shorn of old-world adornments. They replaced much of the Hebrew liturgy with English. Their platform pledged allegiance to traditional Judaism's moral laws (avoiding the Hebrew word mitzvoth) but dismissed ritual observances such as rules for keeping kosher as "entirely foreign...