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Its adherents tether their interpretations to plain meanings as they were understood when the text was first penned.
Oscar Wilde, the high priest of this movement whose adherents cultivated eccentricity in dress and affectation in speech and manner, came to America in 1882 on a lecture tour and presented in the flesh the image of an aesthete.
(A religious faith that disposes its believers to become martyrs may be quite false, and lethal to its adherents, yet persist if each martyr inspires others.)
Japan, where Christianity has almost no adherents, has less violent crime than almost any country.
The NYT off-lead is the news that the Southern Baptists, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, which counts among its adherents Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott, has, at its annual convention, amended its statement of essential beliefs to include the declaration that a woman should "submit herself graciously" to her husband's leadership, and a husband should "provide for, protect and lead his family."