Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their educational system--the negation of everything in disagreement with their philosophy, beginning with the ultimate. Faith in God was substituted with faith in the communist regime, particularly in the deified communist leaders. The goal of this "secular religion" manufactured in Moscow was to supersede the church and belief in God with a host of communist demigods, starting with Lenin and Stalin and ending with Rakosi for Hungarian consumption, Georghiu Dei for Rumanian, Boleslaw Bierut for Polish, and Wilhelm Pieck for East German. By this device the communists overrode the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no Gods before...
...third theme was the blind apotheosis and weaving of a cult around the "beloved communist leaders," especially Lenin and Stalin. This cult was intended to supplant the belief in God, and the cultists went so far on this path that they vested the Red leaders with almost supernatural characteristics...
...maintain leadership and preparedness, he emphasized, the United States must "turn to conventional weapons" for defense, prepare for "limited warfare," and abandon a popular belief, once advocated by General Mark Clark, that the U.S. should "shoot the works for victory...
...WalIy Parks) to herd drivers into some 700 "drag strips" that are now specifically set aside around the country for 130-m.p.h. hot-rod competitions (TIME, Aug. 2 9) 1955). Last week Publisher Petersen sat down with his editors to plan an even more ambitious safety project. In the belief that highway deaths could be significantly reduced by a unified, nationwide research organization concentrating exclusively on traffic safety.* Petersen, beginning in January, will use all his magazines to campaign for creation of a new federal department with the task of coordinating traffic-safety research and education throughout the nation...
American science has been hampered by at least three forces. The public and the government hold to the traditional American belief that scientific research should be devoted to consumer goods, save for emergencies like all-out war. The scientific community has also suffered from the general distrust of Americans for eggheads. The Russian attitude is markedly different...