Word: unchristian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional teaching that Negroes, the cursed sons of Cain, are not eligible for the priesthood, which is open to males of every other race.when they reach the age of twelve. (Negroes, however, can join the church and are not excluded from the Mormon concept of heaven.) Williams calls it "unChristian and theologically unsound," says that the teaching "looks so anachronistic that it engenders hostility in the world around...
...preaching today. I felt fine, as we all did, and we sang with joy." But Van der Wiel was emotionally shattered by his ordeal. The provincial synod, when it heard about the pastor's punishment, was so shocked that it ordered an investigation of the congregation's "unchristian" behavior...
...Secretary Henry Brooke's comment that Justice Davies proved that judges "are not afraid of imposing deterrent sentences." The Conservative Daily Express saluted them as "a measure of the com munity's need for defense." But perennially angry Methodist Dr. Donald Soper called them "miserable and dreadfully unchristian." The Daily Herald pointed out that the train robbers were not armed, saw the sentences threatening Britain's "great technical and ethical difference between crimes at gunpoint and crimes without guns." Since even murderers often serve an average of only 15 years, the Daily Mirror asked: "Does this mean...
...Francisco conference. "The religion of the Bible recognizes no caste or color," said third-term Adventist World President Reuben R. Figuhr, reiterating the historical position of the Seventh-day Adventists. But militant Negro Adventists, banded together in the Laymen's Leadership Conference, charged that church practice is "unChristian" compared with officially stated policy. Case in point: Burrell Scott, 38, building contractor and leading lay official of the Negro Adventist Church of Oberlin, Ohio, journeyed to San Francisco to register a protest that his daughter Erica, 13, had been rejected for admittance to the Adventists' Mount Vernon Academy...
...Premier Khrushchev going to send Defender Davis' family an engraved invitation to run to their shelter? There won't be many trips or vacations in that family, will there? Or they may be caught in some very unfriendly town by people just as unchristian as they are, and then what good will their guns and tear gas do them? I doubt the warning will come when we are all within our homes, but more likely when we are at business, school or just traveling along a highway...