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...Japanese call the foul brown sludge hedoro, combining the words for "vomit" and "muck." Like an indisposed pagan god, the port bottom belches huge bubbles of methane gas and alkaloid matter to the surface. In July, the hydrosulfide stench caused workers aboard a dredger to faint. Naked fishermen diving for abalone near by broke out in a mysterious rash attributed to the tainted water. As a result, Fuji's problems seized Japan's headlines...
Sanctified Fabric. The Bible, points out Old Testament Scholar Loren Fisher, tells of a "God of nature" as well as the more frequently emphasized "God of history." This God abhors pagan nature worship, but he decrees that all creation is good and holds his servant, man, accountable for what happens to it. Scripture even urges the practice of soil conservation (Leviticus 25: 2-5), kindness to animals (Exodus 23: 12) and preservation of trees (Deuteronomy...
...aspects of a secular, almost pagan holiday-a sense of propitiating an earth increasingly incapable of forgiving what man has inflicted upon it. Much of Earth Day was festive and faddish; yet it touched the American imagination with a memento mori, a vision primitive as trilobites and novel as the idea of a windless, uninhabited earth orbiting...
...rigorously believe in the unadorned Gospel of Jesus Christ, with all its austere demands. Christian life, they assert, was never lived better than in the days of the frontier Christianity described in Acts: life in common, to each according to his needs, Christian love as the necessary antidote to pagan society...
...subject of this distaff dissent is a controversial marriage-reform bill proposed by the Tanzanian government. Among the East African country's 12.5 million people, Christian monogamy has traditionally existed side by side with Moslem and pagan polygamy. The situation is fraught with inconsistencies and injustices. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, explains: "We have always accepted that Moslems can have four wives, and tribalists can have ten or 20. But if I should take a second wife, I could be prosecuted. Yet the police constable who arrested me might be a polygamist. The prosecutor...