Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piano four hours a day. "After that," he says, "all I felt like doing was dancing and drinking all night-just like Mozart." In a daring, powerful performance, this boy with the map of White Water, Wis., stamped on his face soon convinces the viewer that he is the pagan saint of classical music...
...principal backers, Egypt and the U.S., that it is not seeking a leftist revolution, the opposition is proposing to set up a secular democracy that would be overseen by a triumvirate during its first five transitional years. "It is no longer a struggle between the Christian and pagan south [of Sudan] and the Muslim north," observes one of the President's opponents. "It is now a struggle between all political groups and Nimeiri...
...copies worldwide and made Bar Owner J.E. ("Bud") Clark, 52, something of a local celebrity. When the bearded, self-proclaimed agnostic announced he was running for mayor this year, everyone was again amused. He campaigned diligently, however, and Incumbent Frank Ivancie worriedly began calling him "a born-again pagan." The vitriol backfired, and Clark astonished the disbelievers by stomping Ivancie and three other candidates with 55% of the vote. "I believe it," said the new mayor, who then went off on a four-day fishing trip...
...some Christian sects, opposition to medicine is sweeping: Herbert W. Armstrong, leader of the Worldwide Church of God, calls vaccines "monkey pus" and likens the use of physicians to worship of pagan gods. Christian Science urges its adherents to conquer illness by prayer, but allows them, if they insist, to consult doctors. Jehovah's Witnesses are forbidden blood transfusions but are allowed other medical procedures. Ironically, because Witnesses are permitted to consult doctors, they have been involved in many legal cases: if the ailing child of a church member requires a transfusion after being hospitalized, a court order...
...Israelis don't like "the solution, they could return in large numbers to Russia..." But the again, what does Mr. Brannaman understand of mutual friendship and self-determination and democracy? And to condemn Communism as a Jewish creation makes about as much sense as condemning philosophy as a pagan creation--the particular school of thought has nothing to do with the religion of the human beings who developed it. (Good gods! Evolution is a Christian creation, and algebra and astronomy are Moslem creations...