Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spread over the globe. In the United States, the name of Baha'u'llah was first mentioned in Chicago in 1893. The first Baha'i group was formed there in 1894. Today the national center is in Wilmette, Illinois; there stands the only American Baha'i House of Worship, dedicated to the oneness of mankind, and open...
...teachings include the adoption of a universal auxiliary language, the solution to economic problems through a fundamental change in individual attitudes regarding material life, the abolition of the extremes of wealth and poverty, the exaltation of work (performed in the spirit of service to humanity) to the rank of worship, and the establishment of a world tribunal to settle disputes between nations...
Initially, Oswald intended to discuss the men's grievances only after the hostages were released?a cardinal rule of most prison officials. He did demand their release, but he also listened to the inmate ultimatum and found it unalarming. The prisoners wanted "religious freedom" (for Black Muslim worship), permission for political meetings "without intimidation," the end of mail censorship, the right to communicate with anyone they wished and regular grievance procedures. Only one demand, added to the list later, sounded bizarre: "Speedy and safe transportation out of confinement to a nonimperialist country...
...telepathy sessions are supplemented by Saturday-evening services that seem rather mild for a sect that includes Satan among its gods. The services consist mainly of prayers, spontaneous dialogues and hymns, punctuated by guitars, gongs, drumbeats and incense. In the candlelit worship room, the goat's head and the cross share equal prominence. Christ's enmity with Satan, say the Processeans, will eventually be overcome by Christ's own dictum to "love thine enemy." For Processeans, that eventuality is near at hand, for they believe in the imminent end of the world...
...hill in Imperial Beach, Calif. A drab shell, perhaps, but a pearl inside; as one 22-year-old girl put it, "the heaviest place I know to worship." Services include free-form "singing in the spirit," a mighty babble of moans, groans and cries against a background of organ music; "prophecies," in ersatz King James style; and long Cronquist sermons, complete with angels and demons...