Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you. Your body belongs to you: it is not you. . . . The flames of the house, of the diving plane strip away the flesh; but they strip away the worship of the flesh too. Man ceases to be concerned with himself: he recognizes of a sudden what he forms part of. If he should die, he would not be cutting himself off from his kind, but making himself one with them. He would not be losing himself, but finding himself...
...Jewry's 4,770,000 belong to Reform Judaism-but most well-known American Jews are among them. They look on Judaism as a religious rather than as a racial concept. Few of them call their house of prayer a synagogue or go to worship there on Saturday. Instead, they call the synagogue a "temple," worship on Sunday like Christians, ignore the Mosaic dietary laws...
...World, where aggressive . . . Protestantism made the retention of the . . . African religion difficult . . . the most logical adaptation for the slaves . . . and the simplest, was to give their adherence to that Christian sect which . . . in emphasizing baptism by total immersion . . . most resembled the types of worship known to them. . . . In the U.S., where neither Bosumtwe nor watra mama nor Damballa is worshiped, Negro Baptists do not run into the water under possession by African gods. Their water rituals are those of baptism. Yet it is significant that, as the novitiate . . . is immersed, the spirit descends on him at that moment...
...Governor Wilbur L. Cross intimated at a public meeting that there was more Keller than Sumner in the book, Keller leaped to his feet to denounce the idea. But last week the William Graham Sumner Club (old Sumner and Keller pupils) decided that bluff Bert Keller's hero worship had gone too far. Celebrating his retirement with a dinner in New Haven (to which he refused to wear dinner clothes), they dragged him out of his master's shadow, pronounced him as great a man as Sumner himself...
Result: the churches and Britain's Board of Education are now collaborating to draft an act making worship and religious instruction compulsory and providing a Government inspector of religious education (i.e., bringing religious teaching up to scratch...