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...distinction involves church affiliations. Evangelicals often coexist amicably with liberals within mainline denominations, such as Methodist and Presbyterian groups, that hold membership in the National Council of Churches. These bodies tolerate a variety of beliefs. All true Fundamentalists, strictly speaking, belong to congregations or denominations that root out any hint of liberalism. As many as 10 million members worship in wholeheartedly Fundamentalist churches.* There are several times as many Evangelicals, both inside and outside the mainline groups. The largest Evangelical body, the 14.4 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, is now facing a powerful takeover campaign by its Fundamentalist wing...
There follows the suspicion that making it is the only American morality. But no -- it can't be that simple. The first tangible hint of American moral attitudes comes on the immigration form: the solemn requirement to swear that you are not a Communist, or not a prostitute, or whatever. To those coming from older and more cynical societies, this is the utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment...
...claims. He also swept business offices for hidden microphones and telephone taps, which could have given him a chance to plant listening devices in the offices of defense contractors while pretending to protect them. One of his business associates, Laurie Robinson, said that Walker never gave her the slightest hint that he might be spying for the Soviets. She was apparently cleared of suspicion...
...auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels gleaming and spoked. It is followed by one of a blond bulging out of a hint of cop clothes writing a naughty trucker a ticket...
...visit if not for some officer's dream of that now empty would "glory" in a distant land. The Conquest of the Sahura, besides just recounting adventures that really happened and the exotic world where they took place, offers insights into the spirit that inspired colonialism and hint of how these long-ago events influenced the intervening years...