Word: anti-christian
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Communism v. Naziism. To equate Soviet Russia with Nazi Germany is a dangerous oversimplification. They seem to me essentially different, in several ways: 1) ideologically, Communism is a Christian heresy, but Naziism was anti-Christian paganism; 2) hence, in practice, though there has been much cruelty in Russia, there is nothing comparable with the calculated horror of the gas chambers and the extermination of the Jews; 3) geographically and economically, the Soviet Union is far more self-sufficient and therefore not intrinsically expansionist...
Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary was celebrated in November, 1886, with two innovations: academic gowns were worn for the first time at the University, and Veritas, now Truth neither "divine" nor "anti-Christian," was once more the official aspiration of Harvard College...
...getting Veritas recognized a few years before. The letters exchanged between the two men were lengthy, heated, but always, of course, scrupulously polite. Each held to his position, but Everett was President and his view prevailed. He chortled, at the abolishment of the Veritas arms, "This fantastical and Anti-Christian Veritas seal has been removed to the forgotten corner of the records where it slept undisturbed for two hundred years...
...state and upon men's tendency to alter the higher truths of philosophy and religion to fit political or material ends. Militarily, Mongol absolutism entered the West through Hungary; philosophically, political absolutism re-entered the West through Joachim. Joachim's invasion was more devastating because the anti-Christian attempt to embrace salvation on earth went beyond Genghis and other primitive societies, and was to produce despotisms and perversions of truth worse than primitive society ever knew...
...18th century Gnostic activists became openly anti-Christian.* The French Revolution, crowning a Goddess of Reason in Notre Dame and proclaiming man's ability to achieve his salvation on earth, established Gnosticism as the religion of a large part of Western intellectuals and people...