Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no complaint, objection against anything being done here until we will have established the Kingdom of God on earth up until the very end! There can never be any complaint...
...occur. We were also told that the person who had brought these new truths to the world was Sun Myung Moon, a Korean. When I wanted to leave, I was told that Satan would try to pull me away from God because I had been chosen to build the kingdom of heaven. I felt that someone had placed a psychological bomb on my head, and if I left it would explode...
...there began what might be called the Preoccupation of Britain. It was on that misty day at the nadir of World War II that the U.S. 34th Infantry Division lurched ashore in Belfast, vanguard of the first foreign army to disunite the kingdom since 1066 and all that. The Americans were to be the matter and yatter of Britain for the ensuing three years, in which some 2 million G.l.'s bought and bulled their way through England's gray and rationed land. In turn, the Yanks were in a real sense repossessed by the nation they...
...chilling and pessimistic. But like his friend Albert Camus, he seemed to find a transcendent freedom in the lack of hope. "Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity," he wrote. "His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose...
...Neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor homosexuals ... will inherit the Kingdom of God," wrote St. Paul. That attitude has survived the centuries. Christians have been grudging in their acceptance of homosexuals in their congregations, if indeed they acknowledge them at all. This tepid welcome has not deterred gay activists from pressing for recognition and even for ordination, issues that sparked long debates at two recent national Protestant Church assemblies...