Word: piousness
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...vilified for arguing that women should be able to achieve financial independence and for suggesting that given equal education and opportunity, females would be the professional equal of men. Horace Walpole called her a "philosophical serpent" and a "hyena in petticoats." Even her friends, the liberal though pious Dissenters, were shocked by her challenge to the ancient wisdom that considered women to be imperfect...
...teachings"), had probably been canonized by Jews as the core of their sacred writings by the 5th century B.C. But even before that, there was growing up along with the Scriptures a body of oral interpretation eventually codified in the Talmud. It includes legal judgments known as halakhah and pious elaborations of biblical stories known as aggadah. Even in matters of law, however, the rabbis were not literalists. An "eye for an eye," for example, was not construed strictly (as it was in the Hammurabic Code). Instead, monetary compensation was deemed lawful. Nor were Jewish commentators troubled by the verbatim...
...Brown?the only American member now on the Pontifical Biblical Commission?has cautiously suggested that the church reopen the question to concentrated scholarly research, at least partly because other Christians are calling the virgin birth into public question. But he is also wary of shocking the beliefs of the pious, and thus spends considerable time explaining biblical criticism to priests and lay people...
...work that goes on in these comfortable surroundings is earnestly pious, a work that to Mormons quite literally cuts across centuries. Some of it is for the living, like the sealing of marriages for "time and eternity" to ensure that husband and wife will remain together after death. More often, though, the work is for the dead. Mormons devoutly believe that the dead who did not have an opportunity to do their temple work while on earth should be given the chance for the salvific rites after death; accordingly, they baptize, confirm and seal the marriages of ancestors for generations...
...course, there is also the lunatic fringe. Hard-core addicts are not content merely to enjoy the music; they devote their time and salaries to Beatle trivia. Jeff Symes is a pious Beatle person. He claims everything reminds him of The Beatles: He can't look at breakfast without remembering that the original title of "Yesterday" was "Scrambled Eggs." "My room is four walls of inch to inch Beatles. My Mom won't let me put things on the ceiling yet. Someday, I'll put it all in a museum...