Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December, when the "winter" decorations go up, I am astonished. We attend an institution where concerned students were able to convince administrators that the word "freshman" was pernicious. How is it that those same administrators can't understand that the House-sponsored display of symbols celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, isn't similarly problematic...
...Jesus Christ is not your savior, Christmas is not your holiday," Flynn said...
...cross--the apparatus on which Jesus died--become the symbol for his life?" Carroll asked the audience. "We [Christians] do not want to know how the Christian hatred of Jews may have its roots in something central to the way we Christians have defined our faith from the beginning...
...Holocaust has shut the door that Christ opened," Nozick said. "Whatever suffering Jesus underwent, this could not be sufficient to redeem humanity in the face of the Holocaust...
...real revelations were in Starr's sense of self. Having previously compared himself to Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, George Washington and the Lone Ranger, Starr upped the ante on 20/20, when he tacitly likened himself to Sir Thomas More ("He took the law very seriously") and, half-jokingly, to Jesus Christ (Starr said his reaction on first hearing of Lewinsky was "a little bit of 'Let this cup pass from me'"). The More reference was actually kind of snarky, what with its parallel suggestion of Clinton as a slovenly, appetite-riven Henry VIII. Still, it would take someone with image...