Word: pagans
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...population of 36 million, Burma has more than twice as many citizens as Australia; yet the entire country has only a third as many hotel rooms as the Las Vegas Hilton. Along the road to Mandalay, the nation's second city, locals pedal away furiously in trishaws, and in Pagan, the nation's great temple-filled tourist site and one of the architectural wonders of Asia, the principal method of transportation is horse-drawn carts...
...know and understand about our world." But the museum's president, G. Thomas Sharp, whose doctorate in the philosophy of religion and science was awarded by a Florida seminary, says the exhibits are intended to counter a lamentable shift in public education to what he calls "a very secular, pagan base," arguing that "the biblical explanation to earth science is very feasible and very satisfying." At least for some people: the museum expects from 35,000 to 50,000 visitors a year. --By Steve Barnes
...become a "den of robbers." The author suggests that the money changers were corrupt Shammaites who were pocketing donations from Gentile converts to Judaism. Falk even proposes that the Golden Rule of Jesus is just a positive rephrasing of statement by Rabbi Hillel, who once told a pagan inquirer, "What is hateful unto thee, do not do unto thy neighbor. This is the entire Torah. The rest is commentary...
...from his years on the run, are the work of a man whose "late phase" came at the height of his powers. Caravaggio refused the idealizing principles of the Renaissance. He used ordinary people as his models and it shows: his come-hither boys dressed as pagan gods have dirty fingernails, his saints have calloused feet and sunburn. As his art evolved he learned to present them in starkly lit, deeply shadowed space that lent them majesty even as his grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which...
...even given the album’s often trite enviro-spiritual themes and archaic aesthetic, Enya comparisons would be both unflattering and unfair. Unlike the infamous neo-pagan Yoga soundtrack artist-cum-New Age diva, there is nary a hint of affectation in Todd’s idiosyncratic alto...