Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advancing in politics as well as religion. Roberto Formigoni, 39, a Christian Democrat and a founder of C.L.'s political arm, the Movimento Popolare, was elected in 1984 to the European Parliament with heavy C.L. support and then voted president of the Parliament's political affairs committee. In Italy's 1985 municipal elections, C.L.-backed candidates were voted into nearly 1,000 positions, including deputy mayor of Milan...
...squeezed between three things--past success, religion and money," he said. Glashow discounted the "Superstring" theory which involves the combination of gravity and theory at small distances to explain the nature of matter...
...three also discussed the uses of political theory in modern-day society. "We have now returned to the time when political philosophers are writing wholesome truths from those who require religion and unwholesome truths for those who don't," said Shklar...
...customs on the Christian and pagan south. Led by John Garang, a Christian from the Dinka tribe, the rebels have especially chafed against the "September laws" of former President Gaafar Nimeiri. Imposed in September 1983, the Islamic laws have been applied with unusual severity to all Sudanese, whatever their religion. In 1984 alone, hundreds of people, including foreigners, were given 80 lashes if liquor was detected on their breath. More than 200 others, convicted of theft, had their hands cut off as punishment...
...purposeful hand of the Creator will emerge for all to see. Roger's response is not encouraging: "I must confess I find your whole idea aesthetically and ethically repulsive. Aesthetically because it describes a God Who lets Himself be intellectually trapped, and ethically because it eliminates faith from religion, it takes away our freedom to believe or doubt. A God you could prove makes the whole thing immensely, oh, uninteresting...