Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would proclaim, "tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, Christ and chaos." Or, "Freedom is the right to do what you ought to do." He did not hesitate to take on the likes of Darwin, Marx and Satan, not to mention Sigmund Freud. He once parodied the prayer of a modern Pharisee: "I thank thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have no sin." After one summer vacation, the bishop breezily opened his show with the words, "Long time...
...Polish. This is a problem. True, translations to all the songs appear inside of the fold-out album cover. So what? Yes, yes, the words are very nice in English (even though we already know how the Lord's Prayer goes...
...Muslims believe that this cube-shaped structure, covered always by a black cloth embroidered in gold, was erected to God by Abraham and that it was cleansed of idols by the Prophet Muhammad in A.D. 630. The Ka'ba is the chief focus of prayer and ritual during the hajj, the annual pilgrimage that this year drew more than 2 million Muslims to Mecca...
...group was led by a man in his early twenties, whose name was said to be Mohammed Abdullah al-'Utaibah. At the beginning of the call to prayer, the young man asked the imam who was leading the service to declare him the new Mahdi-the Islamic messiah. According to the belief of some Muslims, the Mahdi is supposed to appear during the new century. The imam refused; in the ensuing scuffle his assistant was shot and killed...
...tidy Baptist prayer house in Irpen, a rural farming town, has no shortage of preachers or of listeners for a harvest festival; there are eight speakers. When the congregation of 300 lifts its collective voice in a Ukrainian gospel song, the balalaikas and violins are drowned out and the walls seem to vibrate...