Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Amendment Despite its willingness to seal just about every crack in the wall separating church and state in the U.S., the Supreme Court has never specifically tackled what some lawyers consider a serious fissure - the fact that all 50 states permit tax exemption for any house of worship or parsonage or place of religious teaching. Since 1956, the court has rejected three cases which argued that such exemption violates the First Amendment's establishment clause. Last week the court did it again; this time it was the case of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who claims that...
...dropped from the faculty (TIME, March 29, 1963). Since then, Leary has struck out on a one-man crusade aimed at making LSD and pot as American as apple pie. He is also trying to found a new religion. Death of the Mind is billed as the "first public worship service of America's first indigenous religious movement," the League for Spiritual Discovery. (The initials spell...
...years ago over the use of Mem Church for non-Christian weddings and funeral services. At that time, President Pusey wrote, in a letter to the CRIMSON, "Harvard's historic tradition has been a Christian tradition" and Memorial Church "has always been thought of as a house of Christian worship." He offered non-Christians the use of PBH for their services...
Memorial Church was nevertheless built, and dedicated in 1932 as a Christian house of worship...
...Parsis reflect Zoroaster's own teachings is a matter of much scholarly debate. Many of their religious customs-such as abstention from both beef and pork -appear to have been borrowed from Islam or Hinduism. But in their temples, which nonbelievers are forbidden to enter, the Parsis still worship fire, which was Zoroaster's chosen symbol of divine power. At their marriage feasts, wedded couples ceremoniously sip bull's urine because it allegedly purifies both body and soul...