Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...SPIRITUAL order remembering and reclaiming. From political activism to political office to-ecclesiastical bodies assuming jurisdiction over and deciding civil disputes...
...black citizenship occasioned in the Fourteenth Amendment the instrument through which government completed its self-disqualification from competence in religion. The issue of first-class black citizenship possibly occasioned, through the instrumentality of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the beginning of the church's move to reclaim the civil order. When Martin Luther King took to the streets in 1956 to challenge laws of the land, and when masses followed him, and when clergy followed the masses, the new "activist church" entered the headlines and the separated civil and religious orders in America moved from a substantially stable...
...think it no mere coincidence that the school prayer controversy erupted at the height of the civil rights movement. Viewed as a kind of metaphysical drama, the Supreme Court rulings against prayer in public schools can be seen as a retaliatory strike by government against the new civil pretensions of religion in the civil rights movement. The media convinced us that the 1964 school desegregation decision was the Court's most intimate and dynamic relationship to the Kingled movement, failing to see any connection between that movement and the school prayer decisions. The media had so conditioned me to think...
...Lester Ralph, recently elected mayor of Somerville, told me that he felt that clergymen politicians were an untapped source for relatively "dispassionate" political service. He felt that the public would find the nationally emerging new breed acceptable because there is no danger of a church takeover of the civil order, the church being "so clearly in retreat" in society...
...Quakers or if all the directors of General Motors were bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. Legally, there is no difference between being simply a member of a religious body and being under holy orders and/or in ecclesiastical officialdom. There shall be no religious test for privileges of civil (or pseudo-civil) incorporation, just as there shall be no religious test for public office. So the Bradfield decision and Drinan would have us reason...