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...spite of this gerontocracy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remains vibrant. Its sedulous missionary work has made what seemed to be a quintessentially American faith extraordinarily successful both at home and overseas. The church has nearly 9 million members, up from 5.6 million in 1984. Though a slight majority (4.6 million) live in the U.S. and Canada, the Mormon Church's biggest success story of the past decade is Latin America, where it claims 2.7 million believers. "One of the major themes of 20th century Mormonism has been accommodation," says Richard Bushman, a professor of history...
RELIGION: The Latter-Day Saints Come Marching...
...major function of modern Vice Presidents is to travel, and Nixon turned himself into a latter-day Marco Polo: nine trips to 61 countries. Everywhere he went, he conferred, orated, debated, press-conferenced. In Moscow to open a U.S. trade exhibit in 1959, Nixon got into a finger-pointing argument on communism with Soviet Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev in the kitchen of an American model home...
...radical egalitarianism. He also demanded itinerancy of his disciples. Believing that such wanderlust subtly spread subversion, the Romans had him crucified. Jesus -- a peasant nobody -- was never buried, never taken by his friends to a rich man's sepulcher. Rather, says Crossan, the tales of entombment and resurrection were latter-day wishful thinking. Instead, Jesus' corpse went the way of all abandoned criminals' bodies: it was probably barely covered with dirt, vulnerable to the wild dogs that roamed the wasteland of the execution grounds...
...legislators who proposed the change in the existing law are not latter-day Puritans. True, Massachusetts has had a history of government-imposed Christian morality. But this state has so many unenforced laws left over from the Puritan era that such name-calling is preposterous. More accurately, the state legislators are people who are aware of the decline in drunk-driving fatalities that has resulted from increased drinking restrictions all over the country...