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...will postpone the visit. Nazareth Muslim leader Suleiman Abu Ahmed sought to play down divisions, saying, "We are going to build a Mosque to pray to God, the same God of the Christians and the Jews." He promised that the mosque would be "the brother of the church." But worship always carries a political motif in the hotly contested Holy Land. The Nazareth mosque, for example, will be dedicated to Shihab al-Din, the nephew of the legendary Salah el-Din - Saladin - who drove the Christian crusaders from Jerusalem in the 12th century...
...come to worship this false god of youth just as wayward, ancient Hebrews once knelt at the hooves of a golden calf. But perhaps there's a lesson there as well. Once the world's darling, that golden calf later found herself a tarnished cow, reduced to flashing her sagging udders at circus sideshows. Over time, self-loathing made her lactose-intolerant, and she died too young from an overdose of prescription-strength Dairy Ease[TM]. How do I know this? I just watched the whole sad aftermath during teen-idols week on VH1's Where Are They...
David's feelings for Ted, in fact, bordered on worship. He was particularly smitten by Ted's belief that modern man was being corrupted by society in general and technology in particular. "Knowing him as I do," Ted writes, "I am certain that if Dave had known of the Unabomber before 1989"--the year David moved in with Linda Patrik--"he would have regarded him as a hero...
...HERO WORSHIP Until now there has been very little research on what kind of images of American men are conveyed by the media to teenage viewers. A new study by the child-advocacy group Children Now reveals that 74% of men portrayed in movies and on television take part in such antisocial behavior as ridiculing, being aggressive or carrying out defiant acts...
...ardent follower of Mazu, the sea goddess of peace. As a child, she was brought by her parents to a temple dedicated to the deity on Meizhou Island, off the coast of China's Fujian province. There, despite living in an officially atheistic nation, she was taught to worship. The goddess, says Mei, "is very receptive and answers all my prayers...