Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that Christians and Jews...can hold their own particular ceremonies in each other's places of worship without sacrificing the integrity and the dignity of their own sanctuaries," Wilburn B. Miller, minister of The First Church in Cambridge (Unitarian), asserted Saturday...
...gods save the Sun-God Aton. But where Freud guessed that Moses was an Egyptian by birth. Novelist Fast makes him an Egyptian merely by adoption and education. As Fast tells it, fear of the old gods and their priests caused AkhenAton's successors to denounce Aton worship, but not before the idea of monotheism had taken root in some Egyptian minds. In Fast's account, every priest and prince in the great Nile palace of King Ramses II is sworn to polytheism, but an Aton underground passes the teachings of monotheism from one generation to another. Enekhas...
...inspired, prophetic Moses who stirred the soul and genius of the Chosen People and marked out the whole history of civilized man. From Sinai to Gilead. Jephta and His Daughter fits neatly beside Fast's Moses. Seven generations have passed since Moses covenanted with Yahweh to worship Him alone. In that time the wheel has turned full circle: the people of Gilead. "grown fat on the oil and milk of the land," are not only a fragment of a disunited Israel but have become easygoing polytheists. Yahweh is no longer the fire-god of Sinai; he is merely...
...effect of this discipline can already be seen in Russia. The cities are miraculously clean; few young people go to church, although everyone seems to worship Lenin and Pavlov, she noted. The greatest effect of this discipline, however, has been in the field of education...
Mundhra, an orthodox Hindu who spends three hours each morning in worship and feeds ants by scattering food on the floor for them, did not help any by admitting that he contributed $21,000 to the Congress Party in the election. The Communists crowed, and Congress Party editorialists wanly consoled themselves by hailing the regime's willingness to bring the scandal into the open. Said the independent Hindustan Standard: "Nothing short of Indian democracy itself was on trial, and both government and people have emerged with not a little credit to themselves...