Word: religion
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...religion. I admire Christ as a fighter for the people, as an instrument of liberation. But I didn't respect the bishops who supported Somoza...
...authoritarian government: the Somoza dictatorship. The revolutionaries appealed to the Organization of American States and said, "Would you ask Somoza to step down so we can end the killing?" The OAS asked them, "What are your revolutionary goals?" They told them democracy, pluralistic society, free trade, freedom of religion. But among the revolutionaries there was an organization that had existed before the revolution--the Sandinistas, a Communist organization. The man whom they honor, Sandino, he said he was a Communist. (Augusto Cesar Sandino, assassinated in 1934, was a guerrilla leader and nationalist who in fact was not a Communist.) They...
PASSION IS A contemporary play which reflects the breakdown of traditional social values like religion and fidelity in marriage. Even the set for the Leverett House Arts Society play--the audience sits on either side of the almost threadbare space where all the action takes place--lends an air of modernity to the play...
Conrad West, associate professor of philosophy of religion at the Yale Divinity School and star of the colloquium, effectively outlined a plan for a new critical consciousness, but declined to articulate that plan in relation to Farrakhan. To loud applause, West simply noted that the minister was a symbol of defiance. He added as apposite that Farrakhan was anti-Semitic, xenophobic, and decidedly anti-intellectual. It is safe to conclude that little of West's qualification was heard, never mind accepted...
Lambasting America's use of charity and religion as a substitute for social justice, Reverend William Sloan Coffin, senior minister of Riverside Church in New York, termed America, "long on charity, short on justice," and questioned the church's role in society...