Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS THE MOST common examples of the courts ruling this way with regard to normal children are those in which Jehovah's Witness parents refuse consent because their religion forbids transfusions. The courts have traditionally overridden the parents' religious scruples and ordered the operation in the best interest (and to protect the right) of the innocent child. The court would not rule in the case of an adult of sound mind refusing consent to an operation on himself...
...study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment. The 19th century was rife with Second Coming excitements: one movement, the Millerites, eventually became the Seventh-Day Adventists. The "Millennial Dawn" group expected the end in 1914; they are now the Jehovah's Witnesses...
...accounts, a virtual pogrom is in progress against the 22,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in the African nation of Malawi. The Witnesses have been outlawed there since 1967 on the grounds that they are "dangerous to the government," but they have persisted as an underground church. Malawi President-for-life Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, a staunch elder in Malawi's Presbyterian Church of Central Africa, has become increasingly angered by the "devil's Witnesses," their unwillingness to join his ruling Congress Party, their refusal to take loyalty oaths, and their exclusivist claims to religious truth. A Congress...
...still harsh. Death penalties are imposed not by courts but by the army, although Franco has the last word (after a singular outburst of worldwide protest two years ago against Spanish severity, he moved quickly to commute death sentences passed on six Basque separatists). Conscientious objectors, most of them Jehovah's Witnesses, have been in prison for more than ten years at hard labor for refusing on religious grounds to serve in the army...
...blackmailer. Theo of course discovers the loss, and the absence of a diamond necklace which Helene has Paul pawn to meet a second demand. Then, Helene is murdered. Charles rushes downstairs to his studio, topples a great god-like statue wielding lightning bolts-his father as Jehovah--and impales himself on the spiked fence below the window...