Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cathedral; an amateurish satire on the totalitarian state; two denunciations of modern materialism. A reactionary point of view pervades the sharp, provocative piece, "Are You Ashamed of the Gospel?", which pulls Catholics up short for yielding to liberal influences, for forgetting that separation of church & state, freedom of worship & speech, freedom of conscience on religious revelation have special and limited meanings for Catholics...
...worship Father Divine because he is the second incarnation of God. . . . We are all white but we think there should be no difference between human races. .. . It is just a symbol to mankind that God chose the body of a Negro when He came to earth this time. It is another symbol that the black Mrs. Divine vanished and rose again, but as a young white girl...
...Graves, was to "destroy the power of the Female"-i.e., of Jehovah's predecessor, rival and unacknowledged consort, the Great Mother Goddess or Triple Moon Goddess, known in the Eastern Mediterranean lands by various names, including Hecate and Astarte. She had ruled Canaan before the Israelites came; her worship included ritual prostitution, and Jesus' mother Miriam (Mary in the English Scriptures) had actually been born, so the High Priest said, "under the old dispensation," as a result of a dreamlike unmarital incident in a garden during the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus' losing struggle with the Female...
...changes of the seasons and the monotonous ups-&-downs of peasant life as her shoehorn, Author Wernher deftly eases into her book not only such basic and familiar Indian matters as Hindu segregation, the exactly graded structure of the family, but also details about lesser-known rites of Hindu worship, the involved ceremonies that accompany the simplest acts of daily life. Author Wernher, raised in India, came to the U.S. in 1943, has also published a "diary" of Indian life (My Indian Family...
They . . . believe that in the U.S.A. they have a true and permanent homeland where, together with their Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhist and atheist fellow Americans they may live, worship and serve as free and equal citizens. They believe that until that condition is possible in every nation, the problem of D.P. s will not be solved. The problem "is only as hard as man's heart...