Word: worship
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While Saddam stirs fear, he also commands respect. His appetite for provocative and forceful action stands in stark contrast to the vacillating, foot-dragging and facile reversals that characterize the leadership of many other Arab states. His decisiveness appeals to those Arabs who dream of pan- Arab unification and worship Arab dignity. They see in Saddam a modern-day answer to the leadership vacuum opened by the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. They also applaud his unwavering hostility toward those whom he perceives as enemies, especially Israel. "Saddam fulfills the ambitions of the Arab people," says Ahmed...
...state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...
...pitiful 2.4% of the populace. Carey himself was unchurched as a youth. Interviewed in June by the Church Times, he recalled, "I did not encounter living Christianity until I was 17 when, through my brother of 13, I went along to the local Anglican church, found the worship appallingly boring but the fellowship and preaching riveting. There I found Christ, or, should I say, he found...
...Calf worship comes up in other parts of the Bible as well, always derided as an example of paganism. But while scientists have unearthed a few examples of bovine idols, they have never found a calf that predates the Exodus, which scholars think took place between 1500 and 1200 B.C. Last week, though, a team of Harvard archaeologists announced they had done just that. During excavations in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, Rachel Stark, 20, a student volunteer, accidentally uncovered a statue of a calf inside a pottery container. Says Stark: "I didn't realize what I had found...
...reminded that conditions in Rome around 300 A.D. were characterized by streetfighting, chaos, class wars, immorality, disregard for laws, selfishness, corruption, and a society whose hierarchy of leaders felt they were worthy of God-like worship. So then, am I to conclude that the overwhelming symptoms of decline in modern America are nothing more than a short lived empire slowly disintegrating from the inside and that this is a normal process in the evolution of empires? Or are America's problems simply the result of the complexity of the modern hi-tech information crazed world to which every nation...