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...Sister Lied." For many a modern mother the Bible is an alarming compendium of nightmare fodder. Jehovah's slaughter of Egypt's first-born and his drowning of everybody but the Noahs, says Edith Hunter, have struck terror to many a young heart. Children brought up on The Little Golden Books should be ex posed to Scripture with extreme caution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Embarrassing Questions | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...imaginative but firm characterization of the soldiers, seers and courtiers who were enmeshed in Saul's downfall. But above them all towers brooding Saul, a complex, courageous, often noble man, whose tragic flaw carries him ineluctably through doubt and guilt to self-destruction under the eye of a Jehovah not far removed, in time or temper, from Sophocles' Zeus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Undoing of Saul | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Some 30,000 Jehovah's Witnesses descended on New York City for a five-day Triumphant Kingdom Assembly, the fifth of eleven Witness assemblies that will take place throughout the world this year, heard the imminence of Armageddon preached in flower-decked Yankee Stadium, spent their spare time making door-to-door efforts to convert "pagan" New Yorkers. Meanwhile, their brethren in Vermont decided to abandon plans to use Burlington's Memorial Auditorium for a meeting in October after veterans' groups, bristling at the Witnesses' refusal to salute the flag or bear arms, threatened to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...Pelasgians and James Thurber, Poet Graves has no doubt that "woman [is] the dominant sex and man her frightened victim." If the world is in a mess today he says, it is because egoistical man dethroned the Eggoistical goddess and replaced her with grim-faced deities named Zeus, Jupiter, Jehovah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Goddess & the Poet | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...thirds of the 3,906 U.S. conscientious objectors currently in alternative civilian service are Mennonites and Amish, the National Service Board for Religious Objectors announced. Next largest group (343); Church of the Brethren. Jehovah's Witnesses ranked third with 163, the Quakers fourth with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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