Word: pious
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Heroldsbach's pious farmers believed them. Led by Father Johannes Gailer, 65, the village pastor, they marched to the hillside spot the children described. A few days later, two other children ran home to describe similar visions. Soon people from neighboring towns began flocking to the new holy place...
...Annunciation of this modern world, of which Nietzsche was the herald, 'God is dead,' has missed America. One has the impression that it did not reach this far. Or if it is noticed, it is not understood. It has no grip on this nation. This nation is pious. Perhaps it is necessary to be 40 centuries old in order to feel and live atheism as certain Europeans feel and live...
...MacDonald. When the "Red Dean" earned his first notoriety as a mere pink, nobody minded too much. Like a well-cast stock actor clothed in Episcopal gaiters, his shining pate tonsured by nature and surrounded by a chaplet of purest white hair, Dr. Johnson looked the very picture of pious benignity, and his mildly leftish pronouncements were not too unfashionable at the time. The dean let it be known that he had started life as a mill hand at 13 shillings a week. He never bothered to tell them that his father owned the factory he worked in or that...
...population of the colonies increased, it became impossible for the old guard to continue enforcing their own ideas. The practice of church government grew nearer its democratic theory, and pious colonists began taking their new views on the "consent of the governed" into politics. After several generations of sermons on the subject, the New Englander of the 1750s displayed a rooted religious belief that "liberty was his just and inalienable heritage," a statement which Europeans knew only as a sophisticated political theory...
...public backsliders were punished by official decree, and in others they were denounced by public opinion. The state of Bahawalpur in Pakistan ordered three days' imprisonment for anyone found eating, drinking or smoking in public. When a rickety Cairo drinking place collapsed last week on its 15 patrons, pious onlookers called it the judgment...