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Public opinion on an array of specific social issues has not changed noticeably in recent years: 55% oppose making abortion illegal; 60% favor mandatory handgun registration; 75% are for the wider use of the death penalty; 69% favor a constitutional amendment permitting prayer in the classroom. The general mood of the nation may have grown more conservative in the '80s but, evidently, activists on neither the right nor the left have had much success in altering American thought on these crucial matters of our time. --By Jacob V. Lamar...
...future, that final frail and pained image just a few days from death will fit in perfectly alongside his other moments of extraordinary strength and courage: standing up to the Communist regime in Poland, calling on Mafia warlords in Sicily to repent, slipping in a private prayer in the Western Wall in Jerusalem...
...Armstrong that day begins at 6:30 a.m. A deeply religious man, Armstrong says a prayer each morning before he is off to work...
...view of justice emphasized by a leader of the Shammai school. Shammaite criticism of Jesus for socializing with Gentile sinners or healing on the Sabbath reflected specific debates between the schools. When Jesus attacked the money changers in the Temple, he declared that it was a "house of prayer for all the nations," but had 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...
...main event in the museum is a film called The Town That Never Was, shown on a regular schedule in a small theater where the seats are carpeted rises. Hiroshima is never mentioned in this film, which for some reason begins with voices in prayer in church and the figure of Jesus covered with blood. Then the film proceeds to show the Chicago squash court and herky-jerky conversations among Szilard, Wigner, Edward Teller and the rest. A jalopy convertible winds up a mountain road in a scene that might have come from a Gene Autry western of the 1930s...