Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most celebrated Buddha of all: the golden Luang Prabang, at least 1,100 years old, from which the town takes its name and its religious and political significance. The expression on this graven, gilded 'image is one of silent, secretive, comforting contemplation. People come thousands of miles to worship before it. Black-haired Thai maidens pray that the enemy will be defeated, and this week the chief bonze assured them that the enemy would be. The battle that is in preparation will, in effect, be fought for possession of the celebrated Buddha; for if the Communists are able...
...years little Bibi lived in the brick and clay house of Tara Singh, playing with his grandchildren, helping his ailing wife with the chores. Tara Singh himself taught her to read and write and to worship according to the faith of her ancestors. Bibi was the only Moslem among the 5,000 Sikhs of Sunam...
...work, I had long since concluded that the whole key to their thinking is in no sense reason but rather a religious faith. They not only believe that man is perfectible, but in a very real sense they have placed themselves above the altar at which they worship...
...towards life. The truth is that the word 'religion' under the Christian dispensation has changed its meaning. It . . . stands for a transaction if you will, for the paying off of a debt . . . Religion in our sense is a claim: the claim which God has upon us for worship of whatever kind, and in whatever currency He demands . . . Don't let us imagine that any code of conduct, keeping our word, or controlling our senses, or being kind towards our neighbors, is itself the Christian thing. It is only the flower springing from the root...
Mark Neuweld, fellow in the Russian Research Center, said the tremendous worship of Stalin which has been created will make it almost "psychologically impossible" to build up another man to such a position, except by a very long propaganda process...