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...next day Microsoft developed Stained-Glass Windows, the most advanced spiritual software ever. The user could download a worship experience, including Scripture, Webpastor's sermon and Holy Sacraments, in 10 minutes flat. You knelt at the keyboard and hit alt/f7, and out the disk drive came a tiny white wafer. Bill Gates e-mailed God a copy of Windows and a note...
...press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked the public worship of her. And finally she became the ultimate victim of her own fame: pursued by paparazzi, she became a twisted and battered body in a limousine. It was a fittingly tawdry end to what had become an increasingly tawdry melodrama. But it is in the nature of religion that forms...
...Harvard's historic tradition has been a Christian tradition, and although Memorial Church is not considered as affiliated with any one denomination, it has always been thought of as a house of Christian worship," he wrote...
...assiduously in our Literature and Arts B class), worried about physical appearance, afraid to eat a peach? Or were we more like Amory Blaine, our reliance on the Office of Career Services indicative of "a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars, fought, all faiths in man shaken...
...Brussels before being sent to an English convent school from ages 9 to 17. Though she eventually, painfully, rejected her faith, she says she is still discovering the ways in which Catholicism shaped her. The daily prayers and occasional retreats, those "thrilling" stories about saints, all that icon worship and "the discipline of identification with the suffering body of Christ," she says, "wakened my image-making tendencies...