Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THREE DAYS AFTER I arrive, I am sitting in a tiny Baptist church right off Route 220, watching a daughter of my mother's high school classmate get married. "To serve your husband is to worship God," the minister declares. The congregation is silent, waiting for him to continue. Several women fan themselves with folded wedding programs...
...hierarchy has been appointing lay people, nuns and ordained deacons to take charge of parishes that lack priests. And last November Catholic bishops approved rites for Sunday worship that can be led by nonordained parish leaders in priestless congregations. To Schoenherr, a former priest, such measures are no more than stopgaps. As he sees it, the chief problem is celibacy. Eventually, he maintains, the church "will have to accept the ordination of married men in order to recruit and retain." But that is not likely to happen any time soon. Although a majority of American Catholics believe that priests ought...
...should also add that drug experimentation is stupid, pejorative portrayal of women as sex objects is disgusting, and devil worship, no matter how light-hearted, is wrong...
...your other worst fears are true, as well; heavy metal makes objects of women, encourages drug abuse, glorifies violence...and some of the bands even worship Satan. But I don't care--I do those things myself...
...Worshipping the devil is certainly one of the most repulsive activities to most Americans. So it is no surprise that several metal bands have taken to employing Satanic motifs in their music and acts. But an examination of lyrical content will turn up few if any words seriously advocating devil worship...