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Word: anderberg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Surely Dean Anderberg, Swedish army chaplain, cannot believe that General Patton was praying for himself . . . His prayer was said for the preservation of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Sweden's clergy was piously thunderstruck to learn of the U.S. general's prayers. Said the Rev. Hans Ackerhielm, assistant pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Patton Talking | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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