Word: religion
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Eshkol was willing to consider financial aid, but offered little hope for the other requests until Reform increased its ranks in Israel. Tel Aviv's chief rabbi, Brigadier General" Shlomo Goren, charged that "Reform leaders in America want to export their religion but not their bodies to Israel." To demonstrate an interest in exporting at least a few bodies, the progressives' governing board passed a resolution recommending that Reform Jews be encouraged to settle in Israel. Reform Rabbi Richard Hirsch of Washington, D.C., a leader of the progressives' union, will stay in Israel for at least several...
...definition, theosophy is a cross between theology and philosophy. In practice, it is a religion-although its 34,000 practitioners in 45 countries maintain that it is not. Theosophists have always claimed divine insight, revealed in some cases on shafts of mystical "astral light...
...Captain and Lavinia carry on the play's most important discourse about religion, and it is too bad that the two are not more evenly matched here. It is in the course of their disputation that Shaw makes his chief point...
...persecutors the persecutors of all time." When he came to add his Postscript in 1915, he stated: "The most striking aspect of the play at this moment is the terrible topicality given it by the war.... We see that even among men who make a profession of religion the great majority are as Martian as the majority of their congregations." Comedy or no, Androcles would once again, I think, have had for Shaw a "terrible topicality...
...often, Shaw hoped to shake his readers up, and succeeded brilliantly. The Preface is witty, and it is blunt; moreover, it is utterly serious in content. And it has lost none of its punch in a half century. Anyone interested in religion can profit from trying to match his mind against Shaw's here...