Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have high hopes for new, forward steps bythe Soviets," Reagan wrote. "I shall press forthem in my talks with General Secretary Gorbachevin the coming days--for the release of allrefuseniks, for full freedom of emigration, andfor complete freedom of religion and culturalexpression. We shall not be satisfied with less...
...religion without being a religion," says Robert J.L. Burrows, publications editor of the evangelical Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley. "Humans are essentially religious creatures, and they don't rest until they have some sort of answer to the fundamental questions. Rationalism and secularism don't answer those questions. But you can see the rise of the New Age as a barometer of the disintegration of American culture. Dostoyevsky said anything is permissible if there is no God. But anything is also permissible if everything is God. There is no way of making any distinction between good and evil...
...does express a cloudy sort of religion, claiming vague connections with both Christianity and the major faiths of the East (New Agers like to say that Jesus spent 18 years in India absorbing Hinduism and the teachings of Buddha), plus an occasional dab of pantheism and sorcery. The underlying faith is a lack of faith in the orthodoxies of rationalism, high technology, routine living, spiritual law-and-order. Somehow, the New Agers believe, there must be some secret and mysterious shortcut or alternative path to happiness and health. And nobody ever really dies...
...week trial offered a rare public view inside El Rukns' bizarre world. Founded as a street gang 24 years ago, the group promoted social activism in the late '60s. In the late '70s, the 100-member organization turned to political militancy and religion. The leader, Jeff Fort, 40, regularly presided over meetings from an immense, high-backed throne atop a pedestal, surrounded by outsize posters of himself and Gaddafi. Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan hailed El Rukns as his "divine warriors." In 1985 he invited the group to a Chicago rally featuring a live satellite broadcast in which Gaddafi...
This ultimate commercial sense is reflected additionally in the choice of Christmas songs to record. The songs mostly have more to do with American holiday folklore than with religion. Instead of "Ave Maria" or "O Come All Ye Faithful," the album gives us "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and "Winter Wonderland". The result is that this very good record is satisfied with being fun rather than beautiful, commercial instead of spiritual...