Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could he not have noticed it before? The truth was that Len Wincobank was a genius, about ten times as intelligent, ten times as perceptive, ten times as alive as Austin Jones. Austin Jones, in comparison was a boring somnambulist, a ventriloquist's dummy, mouthing without conviction or information or even any intelligence the obligatory provocative questions...
...often said that the Irish love their history. In truth, the Irish love their myths, which bear only indirectly on their history, but which have become powerful forces in themselves. The greatest myth in Northern Ireland is that of the monolithic opposition. The Catholic sees all Protestants as irrevocably bent on depriving him of his rights; the Protestant suspects all Catholics of being incorrigible republicans...
...consensus is, plainly, that philosophic and religious Angst is in, the pursuit of happiness, out...the revised psychoanalysis abandons to the clinics and drugs the task of patching up emotional casualties and seeks to lead men to values based upon the truth of the human condition...
...extension of the conviction that the Bible is the word of God, and of the complete truth of Christianity, is a belief in evangelism, the practice of spreading the word of Christ. Some shy away from the word because of its forceful connotation. "More people have been lost by a pushy evangelist than have been saved," Joanna Jones '79 says. Duff says the word connotes, "holider than thou, and my dumping my trip on you." He prefers to think of its as letting the good news be visible, and imitating Christ in one's own life...
Crist, who says he looked into a number of different religions during a period of adolescent searching before he found Jesus, says he thinks most religions have some elements of truth (Christianity) in them, but only partial truth. He says Judaism, out of which Christ came, is "the shadow of the truth...