Word: sectarianism
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...support of those who entrust a member of the community with a task in their continuing humanization. Bright-eyed junior managerial lemmings who crowd around political figures over sherry in our common rooms may have no inkling of this, except as platitude; neither, for that matter, may self-congratulatory sectarian "radicals," precious literary "humanists," or other "individualists" coping with the pains of life in a liberal market economy. The lesson of the late 'sixties was that we must surrender these insidious self-conceptions, for without a stronger social glue, without people's sense of themselves as passionate shapers...
ROCK BOTTOM AGAIN, wailed the headline on Beirut's Daily Star one day last week. The paper was announcing the collapse of Lebanon's Cease Fire No. 12, which had kept political and sectarian violence down for most of the past month. Over the Independence Day weekend - normally a time of parties, parades and speeches praising the country's ethnic harmony - rival militias fought rocket, mortar and machine-gun battles along the front dividing Beirut's Moslem and Christian communities. Hundreds of kidnapings were reported by both sides. At week's end the fighting, which...
Perhaps it was a late-dawning awareness of the extent of the destruction and horror. Perhaps it was sheer exhaustion. Perhaps it was only that the opposing sides needed a chance to replenish arms supplies. Whatever the reason, Beirut last week was tremulously observing a pause in the political-sectarian civil war that has killed at least 3,500, wounded 6,000 more, left more than $2 billion in property damage and destroyed the city's once freewheeling economy. Beirutis have seen eleven previous cease-fires come and swiftly go in the past eight weeks; few believed that...
Each time embattled Beirut tries to pick up the pieces after a makeshift truce dampens political sectarian violence, something happens to rekindle the fighting and paralyze the city. Last week, only four days after the start of another ceasefire, the multifactional civil war between right-wing Christian Phalangists and left-wing Moslems raged anew. In one day there were at least 200 kidnapings. Two of the victims were Americans: Charles Gallagher and William Dykes, the director and deputy director of the regional center of the U.S. Information Service. The first foreigners to be kidnaped during the latest troubles, they were...
...system that still sometimes did acknowledge the Christian God and respected the man Jesus. Thomas Jefferson found various religions "all good enough" because they helped preserve peace and order, but he could also be critical. Benjamin Franklin "respected them all," but he took sides against the more dogmatic and sectarian churches, those that "serv'd principally to divide us, and make us unfriendly to one another...