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...thing to cry out for social justice; it is another to support a revolution that may be Communist-inspired and that would, if successful, seek to destroy organized Christianity as one of its first goals. In effect, the advocates of revolution would divide the church into a committed rebel sect, fanatically dedicated to the cause of change, and the vast majority of believers who cannot quite see that to be a Christian necessarily means to be a guerrilla. It is hard to reconcile that prospect with peace and good will...
Trinh Quoc Khanh, leader of the Hoa Hao sect and President Thieu's first choice as his running mate last year: "I have met many Americans who say that they have no right to get involved in our internal affairs. But in fact they are involved. And if they are sincere, they must get even more deeply involved and help South Viet Nam remedy past political mistakes. The Americans cannot let government leaders damage their anti-Communist goals. They must look at Viet Nam much like a business. If you invest money in a firm, you have some...
Brahms & Dogfish. Indeed, he seems to have been destined for ein Heldenleben. He was born into the Parsi sect, whose members he calls "the Jews of India"; they are descended from a group that fled Persia 1,300 years ago so that they could continue to practice their Zoroastrian faith. The Parsis, 150,000 strong, are business, commercial and social leaders of Bombay, noted for their receptivity to Western culture...
Insofar as hippie religion is organized at all, it divides into three wings of more or less equal importance. One is the Neo-American Church, which claims an affiliation with the Native American Church, an authentic sect of primitive nature worshipers among the American Indian tribes in the Southwest. The connection is not the hippie love of red men but the fact that the Indians use the hallucinogenic drug peyote as a sacrament in their ceremonies...
TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This time it's Ethel Merman making her way through the jungle as leader of a religious sect that enlists Tarzan to guide them to the promised land in "Mountain of the Moon," Part...