Word: virginal
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Jesus Christ, as portrayed in some New Testament passages, is "narrow- minded" and "vindictive." The Gospel writers "twisted" the facts concerning Jesus' resurrection, which was never meant to be taken literally. The virgin birth of Christ is an unthinkable notion, and there is not much value in the doctrine of the Trinity, or in the belief that Jesus Christ was sent to save fallen humanity from sin. St. Paul, the missionary of Christianity to the Gentiles, was a repressed and "self-loathing" homosexual. As for the Old Testament, it contains a "vicious tribal code of ethics" attributed to a "sadistic...
...American who "liberated" a cache of art treasures from the medieval town of Quedlinburg, where they were hidden by the SS at the end of World War II. The pieces, which include rare manuscripts and a reliquary reputed to contain a lock of hair from the head of the Virgin Mary, ended up back in G.I. Joe Meador's home in Whitewright, Texas. There they remained unnoticed until after Meador's death in 1980, when his heirs tried to sell them...
Will riots break out if it's discovered that all of Young MC's raps were recorded by a talented white youth in Canada? Will adoring fans demand refunds on their Madonna album purchases if they find that the material girl really is a virgin...
That is true in other countries as well. Swedish school kids have bought and preserved 65,000 hectares (160,000 acres) of virgin rain forest in Costa Rica with money earned collecting old newspapers and recycling aluminum cans. Japanese students have mounted a campaign to eliminate disposable wooden chopsticks and replace them with reusable plastic models. Children in one Soviet town were able to persuade the sluggish local government to hasten construction of a roundabout that would allow traffic to bypass the center of town and thus reduce pollution. In Brazil the number of nongovernment environmental groups has swelled from...
...Primate. Nonetheless, in 1987 the German hierarchy forced the University of Essen to oust Ranke-Heinemann from her Catholic professorship and give her another teaching post that would not imply any church endorsement. Her sin: in defiance of Christian teaching, Ranke-Heinemann had concluded that Mary was not a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus...