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Weaver, 44, has ties to the racist Aryan Nations sect based in Hayden Lake, 60 miles to the south. Some neighbors, saying Weaver simply wants the government to leave him alone, brought food and mail to the cabin after Weaver retreated there last year. After the shoot-out, as officers cordoned off the mountain, local sympathizers shouted obscenities at police manning the roadblock and vowed, "We'll get you!" At week's end Weaver, his remaining three children and Harris continued to hunker down as lawmen used loudspeakers to broadcast appeals from family members and friends urging the outlaw...
...adopting Jewish practices." Similarly, Rosemary Radford Ruether, a radical Catholic who teaches at a Methodist seminary in Illinois, says the church could be facing its most intense conflict in centuries. As she sees it, the choice is between "genuine transformation into an open community" and "retrenchment as a Roman sect...
Miami civic leaders hailed Yahweh ben Yahweh for his message of black self- sufficiency and clean living. The mayor declared a day honoring Yahweh for his efforts to get drug dealers out of blighted neighborhoods. But a Fort Lauderdale jury was unpersuaded by the notion of sect leader as Boy Scout. After five days of deliberation, Yahweh and six of his followers were found guilty of conspiracy in the murders of "white devils" and fire bombing an entire block of Delray Beach...
...pluralistic university; Harvard therefore cannot favor one sect over another. Religion, however, reminds Harvard students and faculty of the essential futility of the human pursuit of perfection and knowledge. If we are to focus on more than our own human arrogance, religion is a valuable force for good in society...
...oddball groups on campus actively seek to curb these evangelists. Critics mail out booklets and tapes denouncing them. Some defectors -- who number half the converts since 1979 -- charge that the church has done them psychological or spiritual harm. Many are crying "cult," although dropout Rick Bauer thinks "authoritarian sect" is a better label...