Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature, and such wickedness comes from our enemies. Considering the road that we have chosen, a road that is opposed to the superpowers it is normal that the servants of foreign interests prick me with their poison and hurl all kinds of calumnies against me. . . Dictatorship is the greatest sin in the religion of Islam. Fascism and Islamism are absolutely incompatible. Fascism arises in the West, not among people of Islamic culture. . . Fascism would be possible only if the Shah were to return or if Communism were to take over...
...Catholic guerrilla group creates a new dilemma for Manila's archbishop, Jaime Cardinal Sin, who is already deeply worried about the growing number of priests and nuns who actively support the other, Communist insurgency. Politically conservative, the cardinal is nonetheless opposed to martial law. In an interview with TIME, Sin acknowledged, though with some apprehension, that he had heard of the Catholic guerrillas. Said he: "I don't believe they should do things that way because violence begets violence." The cardinal and other church leaders also fear that a witch hunt by the government could divide the church...
...with them. Almost every colony harassed "papists," and some excluded Catholics entirely; priests were liable to arrest in Massachusetts. The Dudleian Lectures were established at Harvard in the early 18th century partly to expose, as their founder said, "the Church of Rome as that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament." In New York in 1741, two Catholics were executed, one for being a "professed papist," the other for being a "popish priest...
...ecumenism, and bemoans the fact that several million "conservative Christians"-his label for those who more or less agree with his reading of the Bible-do not vote. "If there is one person in this room not registered," he tells the pastors, "repent of it. It's a sin." That message must be repeated in every congregation, he says. The order of the day must be: "Get them saved, baptized and registered...
...detecting and convicting and exposing the idolatry of the Roman Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions, and other crying wickednesses in their high places; and finally, to show that the Church of Rome is that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament...