Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...badges gleaming on their blue tunics, the Chinese, many of whom were young government officials, moved off by themselves into a corner-as they usually do. To a man, they pulled out their little red books and began studying the gospel according to Mao. The American teen-agers were fascinated. Two of them approached the knot of Chinese and offered to buy the Mao badges. The Chinese ignored them. The Americans persisted. Then one Chinese let loose with a torrent of Mandarin that sounded abusive...
Though most street Christians share such a fundamentalist streak, no two houses or communes are exactly alike. On Sunset Strip, for instance, Evangelist Tony Alamo, a onetime record promoter, preaches hellfire and damnation to anyone who refuses to live by the Gospel. He and his wife Susan guard their flocks rigidly at Christian Foundation, their church and commune...
...street Christians have met with little opposition, possibly because their primary concern is not politics but the Gospel (most are pacifists, but they rarely demonstrate). Policemen love them. Businessmen contribute generously. Even a conservative evangelical theologian like Carl F.H. Henry applauds their "1st century boldness." Perhaps the major hurdle street Christians will have to overcome is the eternal temptation to turn spontaneity into drill...
...hardly characteristic of a sermonizing minister: "This foolish young man boasted himself the Devil's Disciple; but when the hour of trial came to him, he found that it was his destiny to suffer and be faithful to the death. I thought myself a decent minister of the gospel of peace; but when the hour of trial came to me, I found that it was my destiny to be a man of action, and that my place was amid the thunder of the captains and the shouting." With typically Shavian irony, the playwright has turned things topsy-turvy in this...
...have not yet quite faced ourselves-that acquisitive, Faustian man may be dying? The notion is not limited to youth. Isn't one extraordinary, still-echoing piece of evidence the fact that even a Republican President in a State of the Union speech cast doubt on the gospel of growth...