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...that detonates in climaxes such as his rejection of the idea of Jesus as primarily a moral tutor: "You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher." That passage, with its anvil-chorus cadence and utter disdain for any diminution of Christ's divinity in favor of his more mortal aspects, may not be Lewis' most subtle, but it is emblematic...
...Monaghan has credited one chapter of Mere Christianity with his decision to sell his major assets and work to "populate heaven" via conservative Roman Catholic giving; the Lewis-abetted faith of National Human Genome Research Institute leader Francis Collins has proved that you can believe in both evolution and God. Other admirers have included Pope John Paul II, Greek Orthodox Bishop-theologian Kallistos Ware and megapastor Rick Warren...
...South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks at Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda, and she was never abrasive. She united us all with peace and perseverance. God bless her soul, and may the light of liberation forever shine. ?By the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson...
...leave it in God's hands. My job requires me to defend any accused man, and I couldn't accept backing down now." KHAMEES HAMID AL-UBAIDI, one of the lawyers representing Saddam Hussein, on whether the recent murder of a lawyer for one of Hussein's co-defendants would make him consider quitting the case...
...large photo of an evacuation from Houston with the highway clogged with long lines of SUVs, trucks and large cars. When are Americans going to realize that their extravagant way of living and their reckless consumerism are prime culprits for many environmental catastrophes in the world? We should thank God that there is only one U.S.; otherwise the human race would have been wiped out a long time ago. Ramin Akbari Tehran...