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...increased importance of the General Assembly, where this bloc can assert its full strength, Rusher said, has resulted in the "tragic and insane" spectacle of United States-financed troops opposing the pro-Western regime of Molshe Tshombe in Katanga Province in the Congo...
...centers were eulogizers of laisses-faire capitalism. But, he writes, "it was not the worship of God that led to the worship of Mammon. It was rather that it was necessary to demonstrate that devotion to wealth was not necessarily an impediment to true piety-and the need to assert it was all the greater because so many of the Puritan fathers had so intensely feared the harmfulness of riches." When old-style "robber barons" wrote about their faith, they usually picked from a variety of philosophies "whatever contributed to the defense of their own conduct, riches and power...
...that capitalism would have developed differently in another spiritual climate: "In all religious faiths, the servants of God have invoked Him as a guarantee of the righteousness and prosperity of their own social class, their own nation, their own race-in short, their own interests. But we cannot assert that Christianity was therefore the cause of all the oppression of one social class by another that has been committed in God's name, or of all the wars in which the weapons have been blessed by Christian priests, or of all the aggressions perpetrated by representatives of the white...
...this is not a comfortable course to follow at the precise moment when the elected representatives of the far right seem consciously to be seeking a martyr. Weary of delicacy and complexity in foreign affairs, they are, like Senator Goldwater, willing to assert that the cold war can be brought to a quick and satisfactory conclusion if only it is fought by men whose appearance is tougher and whose speech is harsher than Kennedy's, or Stevenson's, or Arthur Dean's. The reaction to General MacArthur's recall has shown how powerful a weapon against liberal treatment of diplomatic...
Finally, the Corporation, while affirming the basic Christian character of the Church, opened it for all "private" services. The Corporation said that the University "does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed." Pusey said, "If I were asked whether Harvard were a secular university, I would answer, 'Yes.' But it has within it a tradition of worship; one could wish that this were broad enough to include everyone in the community...