Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private meetings, he is the authoritarian "Master" Moon who claims to be "greater than Jesus himself" and says, "God is now throwing Christianity away and is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is Unification Church ... We have only one way." Other in-group speeches have proclaimed, "I am your brain" and "The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world...
...this stage, Murphy becomes a likely victim for some charlatans who want to start a "pilgrimage" to Jerusalem, covered by French television and ostensibly aimed at inspiriting religion generally and raising the nation's spiritual tone. Of course its organizers have other, quite different plans. So, as it happens, does the author. By the middle of the book, the crusade is all but forgotten, and the reader has become enmeshed in the travails of a fabulously rich Israeli named Meyer Alinsky who, it turns out, has all along had his own special uses for poor Murphy. Alinsky...
Some deeply resent that the decision was couched in the language of religion at all. "Whether or not it was explicitly stated between the two men," says the Rev. L. Harold DeWolf, retired dean of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., "this was a political payoff. Raking in so much of this religious stuff?God and all that?makes it even worse than it was." Others concede the sincerity of the President's spiritual motives but challenge the wisdom of the act. "Clearly compassion is something we need more of in public life and the administration of criminal justice," declares...
Renowned as one of the world's foremost scholars in comparative religion and philosophy, Wolfson completed major works on Crescas, Aristotle, Spinoza, Philo and Christian philosophers from Paul to Augustine...
...with emotion as honest as Merle Haggard's but a bit more realistic. Austin men are not suicidal; when a woman leaves, they survive. Michael Murphey is the most articulate lyricist. His new album contains a tune called Holy Roller, a tongue-in-cheek paean to Bible Belt religion that obliquely speaks to the question of loss of faith. Without doubt, the quintessential country rocker is Jerry Jeff Walker. His songs tend to be unpretentious autobiographical celebrations. For Jerry Jeff, life is "running naked in that high-hill country rain," and his spontaneity is the antithesis of the calculated...