Sects Quotes
This quotation shows Washington's amazing tolerance for the times.
Jefferson was asked his religion: The question was a type of setup in that Styles, the President of Yale University, was an already established opponent of Jefferson’s. Yet Jefferson answered on the record in a way that gave more fundamental religionists more reason to suspect his religiosity.
In the vernacular of the times, "printing" meant newspaper and pamphlet publishing.
Lebanon is a country divided into religious sects which have a long history of animosity, distrust, violence among them. Few leaders were as candid as Jumblatt.
the assassination of John Kennedy 3 days earlier
“Africa” then meant Northern Africa or what we today call the Middle East. Even in the 4th century it was a hotbed of internecine religious strife. He was not the first to try and cope with the religious strife of Palestine and the rest of the Middle East, and he was certainly not the last.
Peter van der Kun. The Bing definition of a sophist is: ”somebody using clever talk to deceive: a deceptive person who offers clever-sounding but flawed arguments or explanations”
The Mormon Church did not in condone the practice, but as there were a number of Mormons who led offshoot sects and cults where they claimed that the sexual relations with multiple young girls was divinely inspired, she and other Mormons believed that the Church should be more explicit about prohibiting the practice. There are a number of Mormon offshoot sects where civil authorities charged clerics with statutory rape and other sex crimes. One delicate area of history is that the Prophet and founder of the Morman Religion was a polygamist whose wives included a 14 year old girl and Money and other Mormons wanted the Chruch to declare the the Prophet had erred in this respect.
