Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...congregation recited a proclamation reading in part: ". . . our brother, Richard Nixon, by placing personal and national pride over brotherly love, you are separating yourself . . . from the spirit of Jesus Christ. . . Therefore, following our consciences to the best of our ability, we must advise you that by your own act, you are incapable of genuine participation in any Christian assembly or religious service, you are acting improperly in requesting ministers, priests, and rabbis to conduct services for you, and you are not in communion with us. . . In the name of the Lord and of the Christian people. Pentecost...
Marighella's emphasis on terror as a tool for disrupting society borrows, of course, from the destructive spirit of anarchism, with its "propaganda of deed." The current upsurge of terrorist actions, in fact, strongly recalls the last decades of the 19th century, when an anarchistic reign of terror spread a blanket of fear over Europe...
...remain inactive waiting for orders from above," writes Marighella. "Its obligation is to act." Who is eligible for Marighella's firing groups? Just about everybody, including students, since they are "politically crude and coarse and show a special talent for revolutionary violence," and women, for their "unmatched fighting spirit and tenacity...
...refugee from North Korea, Moon, 50, was a day laborer in Pusan before he founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in 1950. So far, his main achievement has been to unify growing numbers of couples, who travel from the U.S. and all parts of the non-Communist world to take part in the mass nuptials. Reason: they accept Moon's prophecy that Christ will be resurrected in Seoul. Moon has held six mass ceremonies since 1960, involving a grand total of 3,004 men and women. The popularity of these rites is especially unusual...
...what's wrong with the new terror is that it is creating social chaos without at the same time preparing people for a new order." Implicitly, at least, the Maoists, the radical separatists in Quebec, the Naxalites in India, the Weathermen and Panthers in the U.S. all share the spirit of anarchism: its fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence on absolute freedom (an illusion that in the past has invariably led to tyranny). Often their cult is pseudo-religious, even monastic: it is consecrated to a dead or distant deity like Che Guevara or Mao Tse-tung...