Word: religion
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...special issues that seem to concern Jews is Carter's evangelical Southern Baptist faith (see RELIGION). In a recent letter to Reform Jewish leaders across the nation, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, President of the American Union of Hebrew Congregations, recalled that "historically, anti-Semitism had its roots in fundamentalist religion." But he immediately added that it "is unjust and paradoxical for religious Jews to look askance at a man because he is deeply religious...
...Friberg was the dean and founder of an experimental school during the Depression, and has been an employee in a machine shop, a Universalist clergyman and a tree farmer. He is also the author of an unpublished book, "The Conscious Light," an autobiographical account of the psychological roots of religion...
...Tong II Industries, which manufac tures air rifles. Moon exploits the talent and energy of his hard-core disciples, who go on the streets to sell flowers, candles, peanuts and ginseng tea. Their take is considerable-perhaps $10 million a year, and because his cult is legally a religion, all income is tax free. "They told us that our work bought the Hotel New Yorker," a Moonie street peddler said proudly last week. It is also Moonies who are remodeling the hotel to make it a Unification Church hostel and headquarters...
Although Sun Myung Moon sometimes appears to be a Christian evangelist, he is in actuality the megalomaniacal "messiah" of a new religion. Excerpts from speeches that "Master" Moon has given to disciples in the inner sanctum of his cult...
MOONISM V. CHRISTIANITY: God is now throwing Christianity away and is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is Unification Church...