Word: martyrize
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...Kierkegaard, the death-of-God thinkers developed the idea that organized Christianity is a kind of idolatry that has obscured the real message of the Gospel behind irrelevant and outdated cultural forms. And they follow closely in the footsteps of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German martyr of World War II whose prison-cell writings speak of the need for the church to develop a "nonreligious interpretation of Biblical concepts," and of a secular world "come of age" that no longer finds God necessary as a hypothesis to explain the sun and stars or as an answer...
...Korea, when "a medium high American officer was relieved of his command for what, so far as I could tell, was incompetence and nonperformance on a blatant scale, some of the homeside boys took this up and made him a martyr, ranting in paragraph after paragraph about the sins of the 'top brass.' I thought there was an air of needless controversy−professional hostility−about those reporters." Almost as if he were looking forward toward Vietnam, Rand concluded that the reporters were indulging in the same sort of "perfunctory muckraking, or imitation of crusading," that they...
...First Martyr. Two nights later, some 4,000 young followers of Papandreou carried his cause to the Parliament building in downtown Athens. Cordons of police warned them back, but they pressed on. Suddenly the police lobbed tear gas grenades and turned fire hoses on them, then waded in with truncheons. In the push to retreat, bodies tangled and fell. When the curtain of tear gas lifted, Stadium Street was strewn with stunned demonstrators and tourists, broken glass, placards, clothing and hundreds of odd shoes. One student, Sotirios Petroulas, 25, suffocated, and George Papandreou had his first martyr...
...what? As the fiery, hawk-faced ex-Premier told it, Petroulas was a martyr in the cause of "the people," as represented by himself, v. 25-year-old King Constantine. "I am the embodiment of democracy," announced Papandreou. "The love of the people for me has no precedent in the history of Greece...
...toward sex as unnatural. In defining what they meant by natural, theologians turned to an idea of the Stoics-that the nature of something was defined by its purpose. Just as the eye was for seeing, the generative organs were for generating. And only for generating. Thus, St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century wrote: "We Christians marry only to produce children." Even stronger in tone was St. Augustine. Apart from childbearing, he gloomily concluded, "the marriage chamber is a brothel . . . husbands are shameful lovers, wives are harlots...