Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space program grumbled that no one was paying comparable attention to the many men who were in equal or greater peril of their lives in Viet Nam. Yet no amount of skepticism could dilute the week's emotional response. For many, prayer was the natural recourse. Houses of worship all over the world conducted special services. "We share the universal trepidation," said Pope Paul, "for the fate of these heroes." In Jerusalem, Orthodox Jews at the Wailing Wall made special devotions that included a passage from Psalm 19: "Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words...
...Lenin Lives!" is an incantation that has been ritualistically repeated in Russia since his death in 1924; during this centennial year, the official worship of the Lenin cult has approached religious delirium. The Russian penchant for excesses aside, the existence of such a mystique should hardly surprise the West. Every nation requires what sociologists term a charter myth, meaning a founding father and a founding ideology. In the Soviet Union, the need for a charter myth has been particularly insistent. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 attempted to destroy every traditional institution-political, religious and economic-that had held Russia together...
Real Terrorists. People may be forbidden to worship in churches of their faith or educate their children outside their own prescribed racial areas, the pastoral letter warns. It adds: "We may be forced to refuse hospital beds to anyone not of the race approved in that area. Priests and nuns may have to be segregated in their communities according to their racial origins. The whole future of the church in Rhodesia is thus at stake." The stakes are high. The Catholic Church, with 450,000 members, is the second largest denomination in Rhodesia. It runs 34 hospitals...
...change would not erase racism overnight, but today's restive blacks insist that racism is a white, not a black problem. "When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic," observes Jackson. "When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. That's racism. And this pink-skin worship is pathological. It must be dealt with by psychotherapists and not by politicians...
Ghetto Christ. Like Marshall, Williams sees the black church as a redeeming agent in a racist society. "The black man has understood, in a manner and depth that the white man has not, that worship is a lie if justice is not done: This explains why he has pressed for justice so much. Religion is justice. The black man sees Jesus as identified with the poor and the suffering. After all, he was something of a ghetto leader...