Word: polemicist
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Skillful lawyer, shrewd polemicist, Cambridge-educated Bose speaks and writes with logic and persuasion. In Indian politics, he used to rank at least No. 3, after Gandhi and Nehru, and for some he still is No. 1. His theme of Samyavada (equality) with no room for the idle rich has charm for millions of unhappy Indians. He emphasizes a single-party state and authoritarian discipline...
Protestant Exterminators. Polemicist Maynard starts his cracks at Protestants with the coming of the first Protestant settlers. After praising the "notable humanity"of various Spanish conquistadores, he declares that "the policy of [Indian] extermination had to wait for the coming of English Protestants," reflects sadly that "all the Indians . . . might have been won for Christ . . . had not the Protestant settlements undone the work of the Spanish and French missionaries...
...Protestants were ever more zealous in faith, more peppery in talk, more beloved by their followers, than the late Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian Fundamentalist of Philadelphia. A rough-&-tumble polemicist and theologian, Dr. Machen spent a lifetime fighting what he called the "Modernist Machine" government of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He accused the Church of deserting its parent faith by questioning the divinity and resurrection of Christ, toning down essential doctrines ike the Blood Atonement. Result: Dr. Machen and his followers were read out of the Church, founded their own, which they called...