Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Church of Christ has "omitted" Jesus' virgin birth "so as to emphasize" that he was no more God than Dr. Arndt. Without amendment of this gospel, its followers might easily become the United Church of Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Vishnu...
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout...
...alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend, he was buried in a great cement hole, his arms and legs tied with cables, but broke free and got away, now lives in a royal palace in Paris. They call him Jesus Matswa, cherish photomontages that show Jesus chatting amiably with Matswa on the Mount of Olives. More recently, Matswanists have put together an unlikely trinity comprising Matswa, Jesus and Charles de Gaulle...
Barter. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing, forging, and cashing a Government check belonging to her tenant, Mrs. Jesus Rodarte Ramirez insisted that she was only collecting the rent...
Since ancient times amnesty has been used ceremonially ("Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas or Jesus?") by authoritarian governments to placate their people. But modern Italy's need of amnesty springs from the basic injustices of its present laws and the overcrowding of its jails. The Italian constitution of 1948 provides for a form of habeas corpus and declares the citizen innocent until proved guilty, but under Italy's outmoded legal procedures and the operation of Italy's judges-most of whom, while not Fascists, got their legal training under Fascism-suspects often languish...