Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth century, and he did bring Christianity to the Celts who inhabited the Emerald Isle, not an easy task. At the time, the country was divided into many little kingdoms, many of which remain today as counties. The Celts fought incessantly in between drinking their version of mead and worshipping the race of gods from whom they sprung, the Tuatha de Danaan. Truth be told, they didn't exactly worship the gods--it was more of an ongoing working relationship. There is lots of evidence the Celts didn't think in terms of "bad," and had no concept of heaven...
...with horror of her days as a Phi Mu: "The asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent nonsense one would have to have the sensitivity of a John O'Hara, who seems to have taken it all seriously." But not while he was in college; O'Hara never got that...
...film on America provided by the U.S. Government and, most surprising of all, a documentary on Taiwan that contrasted with the routine depiction of the island as a cesspool of oppression and poverty. The film showed the prosperous city of Taipei, well-run private farms and Buddhist monks at worship...
...Miami incident ended a career which had been hot on the American rock'n'roll scene for three years, with seven albums, the last of which were bubbly stuff compared to the hard rock'n'ramble energetics for which The Doors--particularly Morrison--had earned the worship of their flock...
...under the constitutions of 1857 and 1917, all church property was seized, monastic orders were prohibited, and each state was empowered to determine how many clergymen could serve in its territory. Though the antagonisms are less virulent today, any government official who enters a church to worship still does so at the risk of ruining his career. A cartoon in the Mexico City newspaper Excélsior last week captured the country's schizophrenia: a government bureaucrat frowns at news of the Pope's visit, then when alone, jumps for joy with his rosary beads in hand...