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Dubro eventually grew frustrated with the assumption that questioning the organization was the same as questioning God's will and that leaving Opus would result in eternal damnation. He says he felt constantly pressured to recruit new members. He began to speak openly about his grievances and within a couple of years was asked to move out of the center. He left the group in 1987. "There is no ability to complain," he says. "It's absolute control, absolute obedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dennis Bubro: Disenchanted by Blind Obedience | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...finding it to be a "connection between the theory and the practice" of their Catholic faith, joined a few years later. A stockbroker, Silas says the organization has helped him find a way to bring his faith into his professional life. Every workaday task becomes an opportunity to impress God. "You don't just buy [a stock] because it's on the buying list," he says. "You have to do independent research. You have to be sure that this is someplace you would put your [own] money. Your conscience is being touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ngozi & Silas Agbim: Finding Sanctity in All Tasks | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viral Videos that Swept the Nation | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

...cynical 1952, Britons and Americans alike were often too plagued by doubt to venture beyond the safeties of their past. In Elizabeth II, by God's grace Queen, Defender of the Faith, each might see a reminder of what was old and splendid, and also a fresh, imperative summons to make the present worthy of remembrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Defender of the Faith | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

...nation? What can a constitutional monarch like Elizabeth II, prohibited from exercising any real power, actually do to justify her country's steady devotion - the crowds who line up to cheer when she passes, her face on each coin and bill and postage stamp, a national anthem that beseeches God to save her? What does she really do to earn something for which respect is way too small a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does the Queen Do? | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

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