Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese capacity for reverence may merely have substituted one god for another. The new deity is General MacArthur himself. The worship has been fed by the General's dramatic aloofness. He lives behind a white concrete wall on a towering hilltop; his paneled office is seldom visited by a Japanese. When he steps out into his long black Cadillac, crowds gather to gaze at the man who, rumor says, is descended from Amaterasu, the sun-goddess...
...Herald Tribune "has gone Anglomaniac. ... In promoting internationalism under the influence of worship for everything pertaining to the British nobility, whom they fawn upon, the [Ogden] Reids have aligned themselves with domestic crackpots...
...Today, the problem of Germany is our problem, the weakness of Germany our weakness, the sin of Germany our sin, and the future of Germany our future. We must call a halt to this landslide to a low level of Godless living . . . we must leave the worship of false gods...
...Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship and the hope of a common faith...
Life Principle. Nevertheless, says Park, Unitarians cannot use the Creed without "a number of interlineations which render it grotesque for purposes of worship." Grotesque sample...