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...moderates intend to keep fighting on, convinced, as one put it, that ''religious dictatorship cannot halt biblical scholarship.'' Moore insists that when lay Baptists realize what is happening, ''you're going to see a sure-enough rising-up.'' But time may work against the moderates. Emory University Sociologist Nancy Ammerman finds growing Fundamentalism among younger Southern Baptists. Given the nationwide and global involvement of the denomination, the implications of Rogers' victory go well beyond the American South. At a mass rally of anti-Fundamentalists during the Atlanta meeting, the president of the Baptist World Alliance, Australian Theologian G. Noel Vose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THEM Fundamentalists consolidate power among Southern Baptists | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...which despite the oddity of being in the Netherlands had the fundamental task of judging a mass murder that occurred in Lockerbie. The court thus explicitly accepted testimony that al-Megrahi was a member of Libya's intelligence service but left it to others to draw further conclusions. Bert Ammerman, a New Jersey resident whose brother Tom was on the Pan Am flight, was quick to do so. "Al-Megrahi's conviction leads straight to the doorsteps of Gaddafi," he said after viewing the verdict on a closed-circuit broadcast in New York with dozens of other relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lockerbie Verdict: Case Closed? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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