Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...describing the animosity and battles between Jerusalem's extreme Orthodox Jewish groups and secular Israelis, bespeaks an inherent antireligious bias. You use the term ultra (meaning extreme or fanatical), to refer to Orthodox Jews only. Yet certainly those officials who arranged for the production of Handel's Messiah in the heart of a Jerusalem Orthodox community may rightfully be termed ultrasecular. So, too, are those who intentionally defy both "God's law" and local ordinances, by driving their cars through Hasidic communities when they are closed to vehicular traffic on the Sabbath...
...held. Another group of fanatics ransacked an Israeli census office, claiming that counting people violated divine law. A yeshiva student walking home one evening was seriously wounded by knife-wielding youths; they were apparently retaliating against the actions of militant religious groups. At a performance of Handel's Messiah by the Utah Oratorio Society, young firebrands repeatedly interrupted the concert with shouts of "Shame!" and were hustled away by police after they stormed the stage. When Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek denounced the hooliganism at a rally, a man spit in his face and proclaimed that "God gave...
Talk to Biagio DiLieto, Mayor of New Haven, and he will assert that Yale's youngest president in nearly three generations is the messiah of New Haven...
...office perhaps. These alternatives offer more in the way of frustration, impotence, an easy way to blow off steam and a choice between destroying one's integrity or one's sanity (respectively), than any hope of salvation. The world continues to get worse, not better, and aside from a Messiah or Luke Skywalker it's difficult to see who can do much of anything...
Much of what fills the file relates in some way to religion. However, the bulk of that mail is in coherent Two letters outlining societal do's and don't's are signed by Jesus Christ and the Messiah respectively The latter correspondent prophesies that on the Monday following the Resurrection. Millicent Fenwick will become President and Alan Alda will become the Secretary of Radio...