Word: religion
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...must TIME call "polydox" adherents Jews [March 20]? Although Christianity was originally a sect of Judaism, would anyone in 1978 venture to call a Roman Catholic priest a liberal rabbi? Of course not. There are so many new religions that one cannot keep up with them any more, but don't confuse a new religion with a sect of an existing belief...
...considered Jews, but the name of this group implies the renouncement of Judaism, and thus they cannot be called Jews. The same rule holds true for the "polydox." They do not believe in God and thus are no longer a sect of Judaism but rather a new religion...
Thursday, April 6 International Week Lecture--I Ching Chinese Art of fortune telling. T. James Kodera, Professor of Religion and Biblical Studies. Lunch at 12 (by reservation or bring your own). Slater Center, 12:30 p.m. French 240--Pierrot le Fou, 377 Science Center...
...case, she was from Creighton College, Neb., and she was on her first trip east, to see New York City with friends. She'd been born in Wyoming--down-home, God-fearing Wyoming--and it was only a matter of time before the rural Fundamentalist began discussing religion with me, your basic, run-of-the-mill New York liberal Jewish atheist...
...child. By the age of five she had adopted a world view; unfortunately she kept it intact through four decades. Born during the mid-1930s in a Jewish enclave of the Bronx, Gornick identified with her father's working class bonds long before she recognized the significance of her religion or sex. While her more orthodox peers studied the Commandments, she memorized the basic formulae for good and evil: "Labor=Socialism, Capital=Nationalism...