Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard psychologist and psychedelic messiah, contends that the drug has "consciousness-expanding" qualities which stimulate "a religious response that is only understandable in terms of mysticism"; he believes that it should be available "for all." Other enthusiasts argue that laws banning possession of LSD would, under present circumstances, be as unenforceable as Prohibition. Though brewing the stuff is delicate and complex, requiring the skills of at least a college chemistry major, it can be concocted in any laboratory containing sufficient equipment. In New York State, which for a year has had a statute making possession...
...Cohen even though they have no claim to priestly descent. As a result, rabbis are perplexed as to how to distinguish true kohanim from impostors-a particularly touchy problem if the Jerusalem Temple is ever rebuilt and priests are once again summoned to their hereditary ministry there. "Only the Messiah will be able to tell," says one Jerusalem rabbi...
Today there are only 600 Samaritans left, living in villages in Israel and Jordan. Every year they gather for Passover at their temple at Mount Gerizim in Israel, still convinced that they possess the true faith. They pray for the coming of their messiah, who will reward the righteous at long last...
...fruit of the spirit" and St. Augustine called it "the companion of wisdom." Saints had it: the ultimate in provocation is proverbially "enough to try the patience of a saint." Sinners had it not: they complained and lamented. The Jews waited as patiently as they could for the Messiah and the Lord's Kingdom that would right all earthly wrongs. The Moslems told one another that patience was "the key to Paradise" and "a gift that Allah gives only to those he loves." Patience, in short, was the core of religion in a world where life was hard, society...
...village goldsmith, had striven with some success to make himself all but synonymous with God. His face appeared on Ghanaian stamps and coins, statues of him littered the country, and his name flashed in neon in Accra. Ghanaian schoolchildren began each day by reciting that "Nkrumah is our Messiah, Nkrumah never dies." Among his official titles were Victorious Leader, the Great Messiah, His Messianic Majesty, the Pacifier, the Aweful, and His High Dedication...