Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A pioneer and chief practitioner of this new art is Norman Whan, a former insurance telemarketing consultant, who runs a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization called Church Growth Development International. Whan, 46, a Quaker, specializes in starting up brand-new churches, using a target of 200 members as the number...
Opponents of the imperial system announced dozens of demonstrations and rallies, however, including a seven-hour rock concert sponsored by the United Church of Christ, Japan's largest Protestant denomination.
Catholic nationalists have been fighting for the independence of predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland for decades, but the most recent strife began in 1969. Northern Ireland is part of the British Commonwealth, while mostly Catholic Ireland gained independence from the Commonwealth in 1964.
"The Catholics are poor," said Kennedy, who read from prepared notes. "Catholic unemployment rates are two-and-a-half times higher than Protestant rates."
When Nietzsche said that God is dead, he said there would have to be created a new set of values to replace the values of Christianity. God was dead, but guilt was not, and there was no way to absolve it. That, perhaps, is exactly the period we are in...