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Their name suggests an order of nuns, perhaps, or a sect of Christian pacifists. But the Lambs of Christ, in the words of one pro-choice leader, are "wolves in sheep's clothing." Although not so widely known as Operation Rescue, the Lambs may well be the most zealous and aggressive of the pro-life organizations that seek to shut down "killing centers" (abortion clinics) by intimidating protests that result in arrests and jail sentences for the protesters...
...case, the true problem here is the remnants of institutionalized Christianity at Harvard. Just as Harvard should not sponsor one religion over another, so Harvard should not sponsor one sect of Christianity over another. It's about time to end this puritanical throwback to Plymouth Rock...
...your work as though you had a thousand years to live," said Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker religious sect, "and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow." It is no accident that Ken Burns picked the Shakers, who believed that God dwelt in the craftsmanship of their everyday work, as the subject for one of his films. Each of his works seems the labor of a lifetime: a painstaking assemblage of archival photographs, period documents, interviews and music, welded together by narration that can soar to near religious inspiration...
...cultural matters we can hardly claim to have a left and a right anymore. Instead we have something more akin to two puritan sects, one masquerading as conservative, the other posing as revolutionary but using academic complaint as a way of evading engagement in the real world. Sect A borrows the techniques of Republican attack politics to show that if Sect B has its way, the study of Milton and Titian will be replaced by indoctrination programs in the works of obscure Third World authors and West Coast Chicano subway muralists, and the pillars of learning will forthwith collapse. Meanwhile...
Volume I of A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls contains 16 almanacs and fragments of a significant document on beliefs and practices of an ancient Dead Sea sect. This material is hardly racy reading. Nor do experts foresee any doctrinal bombshells once the Hebrew texts are fully analyzed...