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...stripes to work together on a bake sale, Falwell founded the Moral Majority on the argument that fundamentalist Christians, Orthodox Jews, conservative Roman Catholics and Mormons had so much in common politically that they should overlook their theological differences. It was no good attending only to the Kingdom of Heaven, he argued, when a culture war was raging and the Supreme Court was in favor of abortion but not prayer in school...
...applies to airports as much as anything else. "An airport is like the front door to a country," explains Lin Yun, a Chinese-born Grandmaster of Black Sect Tantric Buddhism who founded his own Yun Lin Temple in Berkeley, California. "The proper flow of qi, and designs that bring heaven and earth closer, can affect the nation's entire well-being and economy." (Airports are especially critical for Thailand, given that tourism accounts...
...Shakespeare-obsessed Stella, and named after Hermione's abandoned daughter from The Winter's Tale, Perdita can't reconcile the vast Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life, told her there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, Perdita befriends the family's Aboriginal servant Mary and a different education begins. Perdita learns to read "the chevron sand-lines of lizards... The ripples of departed snakes, the scroll shapes and mounds and pathways...
...After decades of losing ground to the Protestants, the local Catholic clergy had also noted that these rival churches lured believers not just with promises of rewards more immediate than a place in heaven, but also by offering services that are more joyful, happier, friendlier and more down-to-earth. By comparison with the Protestants' approachable pastor next door, the rock and roll liturgy and the 24-hour service, the Catholic Church could look cold and distant...
...least some of the captured suicide bombers interviewed by Berko say their motivation is the promise of paradise. Terrorist recruiters often tell male martyrs that a bevy of 72 virgins awaits them in heaven. But some women suicide bombers believe that in paradise they will become queens, while others are told by recruiters that no matter how old or grotesque they may be in this life, they will become the fairest of the 72 virgins that await each jihad warrior...