Word: piousness
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...understandable, but the voice of British pop star Donovan singing limp lyrics as Francis romps his way through masses of poppies and fields of grain turns the story into a musical tour de farce. St. Francis's own documented hymns to his "brother sun and sister moon" bespeak a pious, almost pagan Christianity, inspired by the ballads of the troubadours he heard throughout his youth. Donovan's tunes tinkle with the stilted sounds of AM radio...
...School. His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness. Ever since Theologian Walter Rauschenbusch began to preach his social gospel at the end of the 19th century, there had been a growing feeling in U.S. Protestantism that religion was not a thing of pious Sundays but of vigorous, shirtsleeve weekdays. Many Roman Catholics and Jews were also trying to involve their churches and synagogues more directly in the struggles for racial justice and economic equality. The decade of the '60s brought enthusiasm for secular religion to its peak...
...Pious Deprogrammers
These so-called pious deprogrammers are just as bad as the Children of God. They're telling you that their way is the only way, the right way. Also, this group of vigilantes is practicing a form of religious persecution...
...KRAMER SEEMS to feel guilty. He thinks pious altruists of the Ralph Nader ilk, like the archetypical Jewish Mother, will look at him scoldingly for not working harder to get what he wants. The radicals of five years ago will think he's sold out. Radicals today may not understand his confusion; most current organizers for domestic self-determination movements never really thought of themselves as ascetics. Unfortunately, Kramer doesn't distinguish between the kind of Movement politics that was getting him and most people nowhere in the sixties and the present prospects for constructive Movement politics, in which country...