Word: heathenism
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...probably reflects a shared and abiding American faith in a world we can solve. That geometric precision may not be attuned to modern life. The cube cliche recalls the Gordian Knot, that ancient interlocking challenge whose solution held the secrets of Asian conquest. Like Alexander bringing Hellenism to the heathen, Americans want to bear democracy and Western hopes and dreams to an undemocratic non-Western world...
Arriving at Harvard several months behind schedule ("this is a troubled world"), Billy Graham converts almost half-a-dozen students to Christ at a Memorial Church service. "Sin pervades this campus," the famed video preacher said, citing the Science Center men's room and Tommy's Lunch as particular heathen-breeders. WHRB, whose president announces he has "seen the lights," switches to 24-hour sermonette programming...
Early Christians condemned birthday celebrations as a repugnant heathen custom and kept no record of the anniversary of Christ's birth. As late as 245 A.D., the African church father and philosopher Origen wrote that it was sinful even to contemplate observing Jesus's birthday "as though he were a King Pharaoh...
...with Napoleon before she entered, will say to the recording angel: 'My dear sir, you can't seriously send a Wesseldorf to hell,' and into heaven I shall go." To Nanda she observes, "You're a nicely washed and combed and baptised and confirmed little heathen, but you're a heathen all the same...
...simple plan can be carried out in less time than it takes to vote for Ronald Reagan. Here was the dilemma for the Baptist pastors who filtered into Massachusetts and other progressive states, ministers with just a handful of parishioners and tract racks brimming with yellowing brochures. The heathen--Jews prostitutes, homosexuals, Democrats, feminists, intellectuals, evolutionists, rock groups, Communists--weren't too hot on the Simple Plan. But after you've been saved yourself, the only meaningful thing to do is to help others save themselves. So the pastors had a problem: they were unemployed, so to speak...