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...Practical Church Dictionary says: "Bishops are the chief defenders of the Faith and ambassadors for Christ." As a bishop, Pike does not appear to have qualified on either count. One wonders whether in his attempt to speak to the modern nonbeliever Pike has not done much more harm than good to the branch of the Church of God he elected to serve. Damn James Pike then, and doubly damn those of his peers who do not publicly oppose his heresies...
Although he is equally opposed to the use of both the psychedelics and marijuana, Farnsworth differentiated between the dangers posed by the two. Marijuana, unlike LSD, is not intrinsically harmful, he noted, "but its danger lies in the peer group pressure to go on to other things. The harm is not to the brain, but to the individual...
There is a need for an active responsive citizenry to voice its feeling through elected representatives, he said. The increasing strength of the executive branch of the government has made this especially important now. Passivity can do a great deal of harm, he added...
...insist on some sort of demonstration. Nevertheless, he simultaneously pledged to do everything he could to avoid a disruption of the Secretary's private sessions with students. He was not enthralled by the meetings, but neither was he convinced that they were entirely useless. Certainly, they could do no harm and would not spoil SDS's plans...
Some critics have complained that the camera has crippled this ballet with its frequent close-ups. For years, however, the best-equipped balletomanes have been training their opera-glasses on ballet stars to gain precisely the close-up effect. So what harm to let the camera lens do the work of opera glasses...