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There developed a gulf between myself and the speaker. As far as I knew he was a marked man, chosen at a tender age by a sect of mystics to become a saint. He had been proclaimed the Messiah (by one Mrs. Annie Besant), but refused to play the role out of humility. Perched on one side of his chair, his legs glued together at the knees and the ankles, he looked as if he were squeezing over to make room for a bigger man. Definitely monk material, I decided...
...that he could easily set up a religious community himself. When people have this feeling and yet cannot bring themselves to believe unconditionally in the Church, then we get-since the time of modernism-the attempt to build a private little chapel within the big Church, an esoteric sect within the big community...
TIME has written well about an American version of such an "esoteric sect." I sympathize with this sect's impatience regarding slow-moving American Church reform and renewal but not with its attempt to shape the Church according to its own fancy...
South Viet Nam's minorities were also well represented: ten members of the Hoa Hao sect were elected, as were seven Confucionists, five Cao Dai, and nine Montagnards. On a regional basis, the winners were evenly divided between the north and the south. "It's going to be quite a debating society," said one-American, recalling the old Saigon saying: "Get four Vietnamese together and you have five political opinions." A few common threads run through the mix: most of the candidates favor a strong executive rather than government by parliament; they want a constitution that guarantees freedom...
...rule. While Kazanis was facing retrial, the Athens daily Ta Nea summed up church opinion in a story that wildly denounced the Witnesses as "an American Mafia with agents throughout the world, who make propaganda in favor of Judaism." Greece's Orthodox primate, Metropolitan Chrysostomos, recently called the sect "the Number 1 enemy of our church." When asked about the death sentences meted out to Witness objectors, Chrysostomos frostily replied: "The church does not interfere with the decisions of military justice...