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Germany and the "Sects"0
- January/February 1998
- January 1, 1998
The Jehovah's Witnesses The Jehovah's Witnesses–who had already faced persecution by a previous German administration (1933-1945)–report problems in two areas. The first is the dissemination by German states of "anticult" material that defames the church. The church has brought defamation suits against the purveyors of this information, and for now the practices have stopped. A
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Iambs And Pentameters 0
- March/April 1999
- January 1, 1998
If the tape of evangelist Pat Robertson telling a private meeting of Christian Coalition leaders that they needed to model their organization on the Tammany Hall political machine doesn't prove that the "Christian" of the Christian Coalition is false advertising nothing will. Tammany Hall, if you recall, was the New York Democratic Party organization whose
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Obiter 0
- September/October 2000
- January 1, 1998
For years the Christian Right has warned that separation of church and state is eradicating Christianity from American life. In contrast, law professor Stephen Feldman warns that separation of church and state, in fact, subjugates minority faiths (especially the Jews) and ensures Christian cultural and political hegemony. "Significantly, in late-twentieth-century America," Feldman writes in Please
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Hollow Cries 0
- January/February 1998
- January 1, 1998
"We Christians face persecution right here in America!" said the balding gentleman sitting to my right at a recent banquet. "It's true," the young mother across the table said. "I read about a high school in Michigan that was forced to take down a picture of Jesus that had been there for 30 years. It
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Mr. Twain's Imaginary Fractures 0
- January/February 1998
- January 1, 1998
It was a night of anguish, of course at least I supposed it was, for it had all the symptoms of it but it passed at last, and the Christian Scientist came, and I was glad. She was middle-aged, and large and bony, and erect, and had an austere face and a resolute jaw and
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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- January 1, 1998
Mystery Passage I found your article "Justice Kennedy's Mystery Passage" (July/August), to be quite fascinating. It was at least as fascinating as those various excursions in the past when, as you put it, jurisprudence gives way to metaphysics. To me, the stand-out example was Judge Brevard Hand's ruling that, in essence, declared "secular humanism" to
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