Word: sects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What applied to George Lewis Dickinson of Coalings, California, does not necessarily apply to all Witnesses. Justice Tom C. Clark carefully pointed out in his majority opinion, but neither should "a legitimate minister . . . be, for the purposes of the [Selective Service] Act, unfrocked simply because all members of his sect base an exemption claim on the dogma of his faith...
...Harvard--prevalent among people who either do not realize or do not want to realize the value of our common religious heritage. Instead, they think of religion only in terms of sectarianism and compulsion. Their discussion of a "religious revival" consists of speculation about compulsory chapel, compulsory courses, single-sect monopolies, and revival meetings in the Yard. Shown the obvious religious elements in history, philosophy, and literature, these people reply that such things can and should be taught by professors who can be more "objective" about religion than religious men can be. Yet, they would not handicap any other field...
...shaking storm that follows the Crucifixion, Burton loses his robe, his slave and apparently his sanity. Returned to Italy, he becomes convinced that he was bewitched by the dead Messiah, and accepts an imperial commission to go back to Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits of the Cana Christians puts him on the road to conversion. The final act is played in Rome, with Caligula on the throne and the Christians hiding in the catacombs. The picture ends...
...attending the one-room schoolhouse at Perry Siding, B.C., saw a strange sight as they trooped out of class for their lunch recess one day last week. Ranged outside the school was a crowd of 75 buff-bare men and women, members of the unruly Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect,* staging one of their nude protest parades...
...Baggage. Public opinion was sharply divided over Bonner's decision. Some people, particularly those in the areas close to the Freedomites' dynamitings and burnings, felt that a tough policy was the only way to deal with the sect. Others urged patience, arguing that harsh treatment of the Sons only created sympathy for them, even causing some peaceable Doukhobors to join their ranks. The differing views were reflected in Vancouver's leading newspapers, the Sun and the Province. Said the Sun: "The tough policy has been tried before [and] has always failed." Said the Province: "Plain, ordinary methods...