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...family of faith that tends most lovingly to its weakest members. The sanctity of a human existence, they argue, does not depend on its quality or its cost. What God gives only he can take away, and to usurp that right is an act of grave hubris. "Our Lord healed the sick, raised Lazarus from the dead, gave back sanity to the deranged," writes Muggeridge, "but never did He practice or envisage killing as part of the mercy that held possession of His heart...
Even more active measures have their clerical champions. The late British Methodist clergyman Leslie Weatherhead rejected the idea that death should be left to God. "We do not leave birth to God," he observed. "We space births. We prevent births. We arrange births. Man should learn to become the lord of death as well as the master of birth." At the very least, argue some clerics, the state should stay out of the way. "The Missouri decision severs family ties," states a brief by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, referring to the ruling against the Cruzans, "by substituting...
...people talk about." In the ritual, a priest places his hand on a person's forehead and recites the prescribed words: "I cast you out, unclean spirit, along with every satanic power of the enemy, every specter from hell, and all your fell companions, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." In addition to such ritual bouts, Catholic priests are occasionally called upon to pronounce blessings to ward off weird and possibly sinister occurrences. Just two weeks ago, for example, an Indianapolis priest uttered such prayers at the home of a teenage devil worshiper. The reason: objects kept moving...
...Lord "descended upon ((Mount Sinai)) in fire," Exodus records. The Lord gave the Law to Moses there: "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking . . ." Today a visitor sees the massive granite front of Horeb that rises perpendicularly out of moonscape and in the autumn and winter months may be surrounded by sudden clouds, thunder, lightning and lashing rains...
...Lord's quest to learn how a whole generation could have "thought it glorious to humiliate their elders . . . to report on family and friends; to storm strangers' homes; to hurt fellow Chinese without consideration of sex or age; to maim and kill" netted her two interviews with former members of the Red Guard. One of them, a historian, recounted how he bludgeoned his favorite teacher. As other students began hurling insults and then blows at the victim, the mild-mannered historian "imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized...