Word: sects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long ago, young (32) General Ba Cut declared that he would behead Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as a warning of the power of the Hoa Hao, the piratical "religious" sect that once boasted an army of 20,000 and ruled large areas of Viet Nam as a feudal fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting...
...Prospective students, who are most often from the zealous areas of each sect, may come in greater numbers to a divinity school which is considered "safe"--one that will not disturb the beliefs they absorbed as children. "Committed men" are a kind of guarantee of "safety...
...Most men prominent in religion are committed to one sect or another. It might be difficult to find able, prominent men who are not committed...
...Most divinity schools are frankly sectarian where committed men generation after generation brand students as indelibly as possible. We had hoped our "revitalized" School, free from sectarian restraints because staffed with men who had not by commitment subordinated themselves to any sect or sectarian points of view, would be thoroughly revitalized and lead an advance toward higher forms of religious education and life...
...foundations of Christianity will hardly be shaken by the disclosure of an earlier Jewish sect's similarities to Christianity. Christians shared common Old Testament tradition with the Qumran sect. Similarities may, in fact, indicate acceptance by the later Christians of some of the Essene beliefs. Christianity has never claimed discontinuity with the antecedent Judaism...