Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basic in orthodox Christianity is the belief that the individual left to his own devices is subject to kinds of behavor harmful to others, and inconsistent with his own true Happiness, as well in this life as in the life to come. The strive to overcome these vices and to replace them with their opposite virtues the Christian finds both an inspiration and a challenge. From the beginning, Christians have banded together to encourage and assist one another in striving, and for the common conservation and use of the means God has placed at their disposal for carrying...
...they conclude that is is "unfair that Harvard, whose motto is Veritas, has not adequately presented this aspect of reality." The issue of whether reality is adequately presented at Harvard is a matter of definition. the empirical definition of reality is based on objectivity, the United Ministry's on belief. Under the former concept, teachers for any course, including those on religion, should be hired according to their ability to teach. Their beliefs are no substitute for this ability, whether five thousand students agree with them...
Like the average citizen, Senator Lodge had been taking comfort in the belief that the U.S., with the world's greatest production facilities and a strategic air arm able to pepper Russia with atomic bombs, possessed a forbidding deterrent to Soviet attack. "The cold brutal fact," he had found to his dismay, "is that the U.S. does not have air supremacy, air superiority or anything like it ... On balance, air superiority as well as land superiority lies with the Soviet Union...
Nehru acknowledges the human need for religious faith, but "the spectacle of what is called religion . . . has filled me with horror . . . Almost always it seems to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition and exploitation, and the preservation of vested interests." He acknowledges the mysteries of existence with a polite bow: if the scientific method, the only sound approach to life, does not cover all situations, man must "rely on such other powers of apprehension as we may possess." He concedes that "there might be a soul...
Gandhi held that materialism is sin. Nehru demurred: he is a materialist himself. They disagreed on Socialism: the Mahatma considered its doctrine based on the "belief in the essential selfishness of human nature." Nehru felt the beauty of Gandhi's ethics, but refused to accept the religious beliefs on which the ethics were based. Nehru declared himself "repeatedly angry" with Gandhi's emphasis on religion and mysticism...