Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sectarian Mind...
...annually to the doctrinal statement following: "We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Untold millions of people agree. Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelites go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 11:29)? Or kill everybody on the earth except the few people in Noah...
...serving a six-month prison term for illegal assembly last November. On the other stand the angry Roman Catholics, Ulster's impoverished and politically disenfranchised minority. Aiding them, and drawing most of their support from the Catholics, are the civil rights advocates, who espouse a non-sectarian solution to Ulster's problems. Their banner was carried to the House of Commons in London last week by pint-sized, pugnacious Bernadette Devlin in as memorable an M.P.'s debut as any one could remember. Caught squarely in the middle is the government of Captain O'Neill, whose...
...system should the parochial schools fail, Pennsylvania legislators last year invoked another principle that had already been ruled constitutional in other applications: "The commonwealth has the right to enter into contracts for the purchase of needed services" to solve public problems, even though the contract may be with a sectarian institution. Similar purchase-of-services bills are also being considered this year by the legislatures of Michigan, Ohio, Maryland and Illinois...
...tangled events than the abstracted issues, Lynd has composed not so much a position paper as a posture paper for the New Left. This is the politics of righteousness, or moral style. "I feel drawn," he has admitted, to people who feel and act in "the mystical-romantic-adventurous-sectarian" manner...