Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deist Sheehan [TIME, Aug. 26] must be weak in faith indeed if he fears the spouting of atheists. A healthy belief cannot be maintained unless it permits itself criticism. The rigid persecution of unbelievers, and their forceful silencing, by the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, and the rigid persecution of nondemocrats by most democratic countries today, are typical of the unhealthy attitudes taken by majorities toward minorities. Only by free discussion can humanity progress towards global peace...
...Communists from union office. It never came to a vote. By a landslide majority of 2,827 to 679, U.E. delegates substituted a plank guaranteeing "every member all rights and privileges . . . including the right to hold any position . . . regardless of craft, age, sex, nationality, race, creed or political belief...
...faiths to live together within the bounds of a single system of ordered rule, and of a citizenship that, though it may begin as the privilege of a governing race, will gradually be extended until it is enjoyed by all; and pax, the product of the other two, the belief in the mission of imperial government, based evenly upon the foundations of justice and national authority, to bring in the golden age when war shall cease from the earth...
Every fourth Sunday for the past four years, a group of physicians and psychiatrists has sat down to breakfast in the Detroit Athletic Club. Their aim and table topic: to revive the unfashionable belief that babies should be breast-fed and coddled by their mothers. By last week their revolutionary crusade had become a national movement to urge that Mother Nature knows best...
...ideas involved are by no means out-&-out moonshine. Some of them may be sound, at least in substance, and reputable U.S. scholars (e.g., the late archaeologist Philip Ainsworth Means) have said as much publicly. Holand is fighting a case for history, not mythology or revelation. His firm belief: 1) Norse explorers repeatedly visited America before Columbus; 2) the Kensington Stone proves that some of them got as far west as Minnesota...