Word: sermonizings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Golden Exile. For safety's sake, Betancourt cleaned out the worst of the golpistas. But he was discreet about it. Many a coup-minded officer was quietly "retired" with pay, or shipped off to "golden exile" in a diplomatic post. To other officers, Betancourt preached the sermon: "Your only party is Venezuela." The armed forces had a "patriotic duty" to help make democracy work...
...have returned Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who votes against everything including the appropriation for the Dallas Federal Building. In 1960, 60 percent of Dallas voted for Nixon, 40 for Kennedy. More significantly a large volume of anti-Catholic literature was circulated. A week before the campaign's close, a sermon by Baptist Minister W. A. Criswell appeared on the front-page of the News; it attacked Catholicism. A number of rightists (including General Edwin Walker and H.L. Hunt) live in Dallas. Oilman Hunt publishes the hate-filled American Mercury, the one-time mouthpiece of H. L. Mencken. In addition...
...Sermon on the Mount
Preserving Freedom. The Disciples can easily talk union because they combine a maximum of spiritual freedom with a minimum of churchly trappings. Their congregations practice baptism by immersion, elect their own pastors, allow laymen (and women) to conduct the austere Sunday services, which may omit a sermon but never omit Communion. The Disciples have no confession or creed, and the divinity of Christ is their sole rule of faith. "Ever since the beginning, we've been scared to death that we'd arrive at a theology everyone would have to subscribe to," says Industrialist J. Irwin Miller...
...beneath Boston University's nondenominational Marsh Chapel on Good Friday last year. Organ music was piped into the dimly lit chapel for a group of 20 subjects, most of them divinity students, half of whom were given LSD while the rest took placebos. A minister gave a brief sermon, and the students were left alone to meditate. During the next three hours, all except one of the LSD takers (but only one of those who took placebos) reported "a genuine religious experience...