Word: pulpiteering
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...From the pulpit, through the mails, in leaflets, at mass rallies and on such TV programs as Falwell's Old-Time Gospel Hour, which appears on 373 stations, members of Moral Majority and allied groups pound home the same message: the U.S. is in a terrifying moral decline, and Christians have a duty to reverse it by registering and voting for candidates who agree with their moral principles. As enunciated by Falwell and other conservative evangelicals, those principles are remarkably similar to the Republican platform-which in fact Moral Majority had a hand in shaping...
...Carter was guilty of overkill last week when he spoke at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, once the pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. and Sr. Flanked by the elder King, Coretta Scott King, former Ambassador Andrew Young and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Carter attempted to rally the black vote he needs in force to carry his native region. Said he: "You've seen in this campaign the stirrings of hate and the rebirth of code words like 'states' rights, [and] a campaign reference to the Ku Klux Klan relating to the South. Racism...
...government for making divorce and abortion too easy. While denying undue influence, the church, which is especially strong in Strauss's native Bavaria, thus appeared to be intervening in an effort to shore up Strauss's fortunes. Schmidt was predictably furious. Said he: "Politics from the pulpit is an abomination...
Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger declared from an Oberammergau pulpit, "AntiSemitism has no part in this play." Saying that anti-Semitism can be brought on "by talking about it," he added: "I beg of everybody, particularly our Jewish friends, to stop reproaching us with an anti-Semitism totally alien to the historic roots and content of this play...
...that might be simply because he is less important than Fischer in an unimaginably malignant cosmos. Greene, the artist, does imagine this universe as the worst and not necessarily the only possible one. It is always a mistake to understand him too quickly or simply. If preached from a pulpit, the theology bandied about in this novel would empty most churches in seconds. Says Fischer: "I wonder by the way . . . how one would revenge oneself on God. I suppose Christians would say by hurting his son." No character contradicts this view of religion as endless ferocity and agony, though...