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...Concludes Mathews: "Are we submitting to the picture of God in Scripture? Or are we putting ourselves over Scripture and rewriting it in terms of our own preferences?" Similar sentiments have been expressed by Orthodox Rabbi Shalom Carmy of New York's Yeshiva University and Moyers panelist and Catholic priest-professor Alexander Di Lella...
Much of the information on Columbus' brutality was recorded by Bartoleme de las Cases, a Spanish priest who witnessed the conquest firsthand. He wrote that the Spanish "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." He recorded a story of two Spaniards who met two Arawak boys carrying parrots; the parrots were seized and the boys were beheaded "for fun." He also wrote: "[O]ur work was to exasperate, ravaage, kill, mangle and destroy...[Columbus] was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable...
DIED. LAWRENCE JENCO, 61, Catholic priest held hostage for nearly 19 months in the mid-1980s by Islamic radicals seeking to influence U.S. policy; of cancer; in Hillside, Illinois. The head of Catholic Relief Services in Beirut, he was abducted and brutally held with several other Americans...
Twenty-five years ago, the Tofflers wrote in Future Shock that "a well-oiled machinery for the creation and diffusion of fads is now an entrenched part of the modern economy." A generation after their first great sermon, the high priest and priestess of futurism may finally get to practice what they've been preaching...
Other literary celebrities, like WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (Naked Lunch), are devoted to rock. He masterminded The "Priest" They Called Him, a spoken-word album with music by KURT COBAIN...