Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There, Miles declared himself a "pious agnostic." An agnostic in the usual sense, he thinks that we humans cannot know whether God exists or not, However, unlike most agnostics, he is a regular church-goer. Church attendance is good for society if not for the soul. Miles remarks in The Sentinel that he often leaves church "with gladness and singleness of heart' to love my neighbor as myself." Moreover, he explains, "It is not the saving knowledge I find there...but the admission I make there as nowhere else, that no knowledge saves...
...badman Parker returns, tougher than ever. His old target was the Mafia (you don't want even a bad-guy hero brutalizing widows and orphans). This time the cash cow is a sleazy televangelist. The holdup goes like grease, netting several garbage bags full of bucks donated by the pious, when suddenly...
Perkins says he knew he was gay before he knew the words to describe his feelings. As a child growing up in a pious Baptist family in Los Angeles, however, he quickly learned to hide his desire...
...since Bishop Fulton J. Sheen began delivering his weekly sermons in front of a chalkboard on the DuMont Network has television been so pious. You could call it prime-time revivalism, except that TV never had much religion to revive. Until recently, religion was considered too sensitive a topic to dramatize--or joke about. Producer Norman Lear (All in the Family) made an unsuccessful venture into that territory in 1991 with Sunday Dinner, a weak sitcom in which characters regularly argued about God. Two years later, Lear addressed the lack of religious programming in a speech at the National Press...
That's how she struck me when I met her and as I watched her life. She was tough. There was the worn and weathered face, the abrupt and definite speech. We think saints are soft, ethereal, pious and meek. But some saints are steamrollers, and great saints are great organizers, great operators, great combatants in the world...