Word: worshipfully
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...Beauty Pageant and What's All the Noise About Boys? I also marveled at the ingenuity of the contestants who, not allowed to go to a gym at night, tried to lose pounds by running up and down their hotel hallway. And I also discovered a uniformity in idol worship: when asked to list those they most admire, almost all named Oprah, God, Katie Couric and Julia Roberts, in that order...
...Kabul Ignoring international protests by governments, religious leaders and archaeologists, Taliban forces fanned out across Afghanistan to begin destroying all statues, including ancient works of art that the hard-line government contends violate the tenets of Islam, which forbids the worship of images. Two huge 5th century depictions of Buddha, carved into a mountainside in Bamiyan, west of Kabul, are among the works being destroyed. Iran, ruled by Islamic clergy, and Pakistan, Afghanistan's closest ally, joined the protests...
...Wikingsmuseum Oslo I," which portrays an old Norse ship that leaps out of the frame, prow-forward. The singularity of purpose in this image, taken with the well-composed light streaming in from windows, imparts a striking ecclesiastical quality to the work. Hofer refrains, however, from photographing places of worship--an absence that is striking...
...birth of the nation is not an altogether blessed event in this canonically loose novel about the Revolutionary War. Patriotism masks hypocrisy and greed. The Founding Fathers cloak private agendas and petty motives in lofty ideals. After decades of antihero worship and historical revision, are there still readers who can be jolted or amused by caricatures of national legends behaving like lesser mortals? Yet the author seems to have had a chortling good time burlesquing the past in a style that swings between Henry Fielding and Mel Brooks...
...Christians needn't be entirely smug on the subject of destroying holy images. Iconoclasm (literally, the breaking of images) was the name of an eighth- and ninth-century movement in the Eastern church against the worship of holy pictures. In 753, the Emperor Constantine summoned a great synod to forbid image-worship forever. The synod declared it blasphemous to represent, by the dead materials of paint and carved stone, those who live with Christ. The bishops damned image-worshipers as idolators (and there is a commandment about that, is there not?). Pictures of the saints in churches were replaced...