Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the fascination for Jesus among the young may simply be belated hero worship of a fellow rebel, the first great martyr to the cause of peace and brotherhood. Not so, however, for the vast majority in the Jesus movement. If any one mark clearly identifies them it is their total belief in an awesome, supernatural Jesus Christ, not just a marvelous man who lived 2,000 years ago but a living God who is both Saviour and Judge, the ruler of their destinies. Their lives revolve around the necessity for an intense personal relationship with that Jesus...
Prospective freshman at Harvard are issued a booklet describing the wonders of the place, and containing a brief paragraph from a statement of the Corporation to the effect that Harvard is interdenominational, and recognizes the right of members of all faiths to worship freely in Memorial Church. Most of them never get to Harvard, and few of those who do remember this little statement, or realize its significance. For it marked the beginning of the end of Nathan Pusey as a president with a constituency...
...temple was divided into two parts, a building containing ritual objects and images for worship, and adormitory building in which the temple's 75 monks slept. I was taken into the dormitory section and brought to the room of the monk I had met outside who became my host. I slept on the floor on a straw mat between two bunk beds. My host, who spoke fairly good English, explained the customs of his temple so I could follow them while I stayed there. At 5 am, everyone gets up, bathes, and begs for alms at houses throughout the city...
...much a sex object as his partner. Everyone in the movie, in fact, is in some sense an object, and most of the objects are men. But the point here is that people seem finally to be more interested in sleeping than in screwing. A character says. "Body worship is the idea behind all music, all art-the whole thing." In a world where that is true, in the world of Flesh, sex must resemble wallpaper, even if the pattern is purple Elsie the Cows. Flesh exploits women far less than your standard Nixon-Paramount Western; it exploits everybody...
...test case for two of our group was set for Good Friday. Photographs taken at our worship service were used as evidence at the trial and revealed that, contrary to police testimony, we had neither prevented pedestrian traffic nor posed a substantial threat to the peace and tranquility of the nation's capital. The two defendants were acquitted...