Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Asking God. Apparently there is a ready audience for the high-powered spiritual fare. "A woman told me that this is all the religion her children get," Robertson says. The invitation to listeners to phone in for prayer helps bring the network 500,000 calls a year and 30,000 professions of faith. Explains Robertson: "We can ask God to heal and he does it. This is just New Testament...
Above all, the reader encounters an amazingly wide-ranging mind. Economics for Smith was only one interest of the philosopher-"whose trade it is not to do any thing, but to observe every thing." Accordingly, he discusses the intellectual underpinnings of government, education, religion, even artistic freedom (the state, he wrote, should give "entire liberty to all those who . . . would attempt, without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing"). Among his opinions...
...that policy statement Bok announced that, "Harvard would not enter on any study where a foreign government could veto the employment of certain Harvard personnel on the grounds of religion...
...Saudi Arabian government requires that people must state their religion before acquiring entrance visas. The Foreign Ministry must specially authorize a Saudi consulate before a Jew is issued a visa...
...merciless, it is not unkind; Boris' angry monologues with God are closer to Fiddler on the Roof than to comic on the make. The same affection courses through his parodies of Fellini and Bergman and of Pierre at Borodino. In mocking classics, in touching on the topics of religion and mortality, Allen has drawn laughter where there was silence and mustaches where there were faces...