Word: antireligion
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...Gong, the outlawed meditation group that spooked the nation's leadership by quietly mobilizing more than 10,000 people for a mass protest in Beijing last year. Other seekers of spirituality, mostly younger and more attuned to Western influences, have converted to Christianity. Two decades ago, shortly after the antireligion fervor of the Cultural Revolution, only 2 million Chinese identified themselves as Christian. Today the number is nearly 60 million, according to overseas Christian groups--about the same number as the official membership of China's Communist Party...
...founder of the Soviet state wrote those words in 1922, but they were only made public last April -- at a time when Lenin's heirs were finally giving up their long antireligion battle. Perhaps the most startling evidence of the change was the celebration of the first Eucharist since 1918 in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption, barely three weeks ago. While Anatoli Lukyanov, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, and Ivan Silayev, prime minister of the Russian republic, and other Communist dignitaries looked on, Alexi II, Patriarch of All Russia, conducted services in the formerly pre-eminent church...
...campaign for social retrenchment at what may be a propitious time. Fundamentalists detect a widespread feeling in America of spiritual bafflement and dissatisfaction. Many commentators outside the movement agree. Sociologist Rodney Stark of the University of Washington, no Fundamentalist himself, thinks that the religious right makes quite accurate assessments. Antireligion and amorality have in fact been spreading in the public schools, he asserts, and "a majority of Americans are scandalized" by the apparent flouting of traditional values on television and in the press. Similarly, Michael Novak, the neoconservative Roman Catholic, says that the mass media so neglect the nation...
...helpful introduction from Tupelo Mayor James Caldwell, who said of him, "He doesn't have to talk about his beliefs. He practices them. He doesn't have to talk about prayer in school. He prays at home." But when a questioner described the Democratic platform as "antireligion," Mondale replied, "I have my faith, and it's my whole being. What makes America great is that our faith is between ourselves, our conscience and our God. We don't have to clear our faith by passing muster with some politician who happens to be running against...
...Editor Herbert Gunn of the London Daily Sketch last week. But Herbert Gunn is very much of an editor (the Sketch's circulation has jumped from 600,000 to 1,000,000 since he took charge 18 months ago). When he saw how many readers wrote in about antireligion BBC broadcasts by Psychologist Margaret Knight (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.), he saw a circulation builder. "The boldest discussion ever attempted by a newspaper." the Sketch proclaimed a few weeks later: IF CHRIST CAME BACK...