Keeping the church divorced from politics, from business ethics and from controversial social issues assures the
purity of the religious body and prevents the contamination of its members.
Quoted by Francis W. McPeek in «The
Role of Religious Bodies in the Treatment of Inebriety in the United States,» Alcohol, Science and Society, p. 416.
Unfortunately, the dirty
linen of some religious bodies get aired more than others because of radicals who can not be contained or controlled, therefore, the entire flock bears the burden because of a few rotten apples.
But our local interviewing encompassed the entire
range of religious bodies found at the seven sites where we interviewed (Seattle, Albuquerque, Chicago, Nashville, Hartford, and clusters of rural counties in central Missouri and central Alabama).
It gets slippery when we try to control how one's love for Jesus is expressed because it becomes no different from the control
mentality of religious bodies.
One hopes that the Supreme Court will interpret the word «religion» broadly to cover the moral teaching
of religious bodies as well as worship and rituals.
In the United States they are usually
schools of religious bodies that have not, or at least not long, understood themselves as part of the mainstream of American and academic culture.
To coordinate the expanding programs of continuing education for the pastor, the Indiana Pastoral Institute is being incorporated as an
association of religious bodies and educational centers who desire to cooperate in stimulating and sharing potential resources for more effective education.
The publication draws attention to a series of failings in the Equality Bill but particularly those pertaining to the
freedom of religious bodies to employ people living their faith.
These quotations, including the statement by Bellows at the cornerstone laying, are from a description of the work of Turner in an article by Francis W. McPeek, «The
Role of Religious Bodies in the Treatment of Inebriety in the United States,» Alcohol, Science and Society, pp.413 - 14.
The most significant deductions from these figures are, first, that more than half of the people of the United States are now
members of religious bodies — in the neighborhood of 58 per cent — and second, that growth in church membership reveals a steady increase, not only numerically but in proportion to the general population.