Word: antichristianism
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...Caves du Vatican, Theseus, etc., one of the topflight literary figures of the 20th century. The official decree banning Gide's work did not give a reason, but the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano offered an interpretation: "He lived as a nonChristian, even as a deliberate antiChristian. The taste for profanity . . . was carried by him to blasphemy . . . His art had a feeling of his lasciviousness . . . The work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous seduction . . ." It was a great pity, said L'Osservatore. "The gifts he possessed, both...
...However much we may be opposed to he Dean of Canterbury in his political views, he is not antiChristian, but . . . holds profoundly the same Christian faith you and I hold. He draws conclusions from it which at least I do not accept, and, as it seems to me, he shows a lack of skill in reading the evidence of what is to be seen in the world at large. But he sincerely believes that our present western social order is not as Christian as it might be; he believes that a thoroughly socialist order is more Christian and that sometimes...
Festival officials were leary of putting the opera on. Says Dallapiccola: "Everyone reads into my opera what they like, not what I wrote. People wrongly accuse me of being antiChristian. I believe in God, I take my little girl to church myself every morning. The Communists, who in the beginning approved highly of the opera, now say that it's a skit on Stalin and his methods...
...enemy who is challenging Western civilization and threatening out way of life? The enemy is communism, which is a religion and is antiChristian. As a Christian soldier, I declare myself an enemy of communism and all it stands...
...that we are at war with Russia, it must be the prayer and effort of every Christian to help win the war at the moral and spiritual level without letting it reach the shooting stage. It is our duty to realize that Communism is pagan, anti-God, and antiChristian...