Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fellow-Poet Robert Graves can only worship before eternal woman, "The Goddess" of whom he often writes. But a visionary woman like Poet Raine, conscious of her mortality, can herself become the Goddess when she declaims...
...return home and buy that restaurant or farm with the money they have saved. Saud's rigid Moslem code imposes added irritants. Books are banned (apparently in fear of subversive literature). Wives are irritated by the Saudi refusal to let women drive anywhere outside the company compounds. Christian worship is forbidden, and services must be conducted surreptitiously by a priest who flies in from Bahrein and gives his profession as "teacher." Both Aramco and the U.S. military advisory groups are forbidden to have Jewish employees, and an American who receives a letter with an Israeli postmark is deported...
Some brought along pet doctrines of their own, and gradually some of these grew into a new theology. The Seventh Day Baptists contributed the teaching that Christians are observing the wrong day of worship; the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) was enjoined by the Ten Commandments and kept by Jesus himself; Sunday worship, they believed, was a 2nd or 3rd century innovation without Biblical authority. This became a cardinal tenet of the new post-Millerites, and by 1860 they were calling themselves Seventh-day (because they observe the Sabbath) Adventists (because they look for the imminent advent of Christ...
...shall shew forth thy praise" (Psalms 51:15). Twenty-eight promises were made by angels, one by man to an angel, and two were made by an evil spirit to the Lord. Satan made nine, as when he promised the world to Christ "if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (to which Christ answered: "Get thee hence, Satan"). Grand total of promises...
...Russian techniques of discrediting the religion have been, said Frye, more effective than Hitler's persecutions of Judaism. While allowing the older people to keep their "cultural autonomy," the Communists have indoctrinated the youth with the spirit of 19th century humanism. The new generation is turning from worship of God to deiflcation...