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...Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa (official title: Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk) bares its teeth indiscriminately at foxtrotting, modern bathing suits and free speech. Along with its two smaller sister communions, it has denounced Christmas celebrations as "heathen rites" and castigated South Africans, especially women, for smoking and drinking. At its last synod the church elders condemned Freemasonry, the equality of the sexes and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (as defying the "pattern of inequality" which God created...
...Like a Heathen God." They spent much of the evening looking at portraits of Bernard's ancestors. One was "a man with a fat smiley face and a red ribbon . . . My great uncle Ambrose Fudge said Bernard carelessly ... He was really the Sinister son of Queen Victoria. Not really cried Ethel in excited tones but what does that mean. Well I dont quite know said Bernard Clark ... but I mean to find...
...been making hay. After giving Ethel a gay spree at the "Gaierty Hotel," he proposes to her outside Windsor Castle. "If you say no," he warns, "I shall perforce dash my body to the brink of yon muddy river." But Ethel gladly accepts. "You are to me like a Heathen god," she tells Bernard. He kisses her and she falls in a swoon...
...Pretoria, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church (1,400,000 members) held a synod, solemnly condemned: 1) cremation ("a heathen custom"), 2) commercial radio programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...
Another section of the Dutch Reformed Church formally condemned Christmas trees and Santa Claus as "heathen...