Word: iscariot
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...legend concerned with one of these Apostles [Judas Iscariot] has caused great mischief. That it ever gained credence does not speak well for men's acumen. . . . There is no exaggeration in saying that this legend, which sets a devil up against the figure of light for the sake of an effective background, has caused hundreds of thousands of human beings to be tortured and murdered...
Baptist Norris with prodigious ire blasted the Modernists some time ago with a sentence, in scareheads on his Fundamentalist-Baptist Searchlight: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased...
...Easter Rite. Throughout Mexico pious citizens celebrated Holy Saturday by burning, mangling and blowing up with firecrackers effigies representing Judas Iscariot...
...Oberammergau the local Mayor, the Judas Iscariot of the Passion Players, commented upon the reception accorded two years ago to famed Anton Lang, interpreter of the role of Christ, by President Coolidge (TIME, March 24, 1924, PRESIDENCY...
...this point entered the Rev. J. Frank Norris-"Two-gun Norris who gets his man," "Norris, the Texas bear-cat," the most Fundamental in the most Fundamental of all Baptist communities. He is the publisher of The Searchlight, a paper with scare headlines and such "leads" as: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases continue to occupy pulpits and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Now, under ordinary circumstances, Mr. Norris would show as much love for a High...