Word: bigotism
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...high wire between faith and honest doubt sometimes trembled under him. He became bad-tempered every time his devoted Australian wife took another of his brood off to be baptized, but toward the end of his life took great stock in the Old Testament. He was no scientific bigot and mocked his materialist friend John Tyndall by asking how he could deduce Hamlet from the molecular structure of a mutton chop. He dismissed August Comte's fashionable positivism as "Catholicism without Christianity...
...Protestant to believe that the Roman version of the formula 'Outside the church there is no salvation' is the precise equivalent of saying 'All non-Catholics go to hell,' for this makes it easy for the Protestant to use words like 'intolerance,' 'bigot,' and 'spiritual pride.' But if he thinks that that is the actual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, the process of dialogue will let him in for some real surprises, and he will have to change his tune." Similarly, it may be disconcerting to some Roman Catholics...
...intelligent bigot is no uncommon phenomenon in American politics. While we have rabble rousers, we also have educated, sometimes almost cultured men whose prejudices unbalance them, and distort their outlook. Father Feeney is one of these, and David Wang, another...
Died. Gerald B. (for Burton) Winrod, 57, big, bellicose self-styled "Reverend," race-baiting bigot, editor of the Defender, the monthly propaganda whip of his pseudo-religious organization, "The Defenders of the Christian Faith;" of pneumonia; in Wichita, Kans. A deep-voiced radiorator who flourished in the Father Coughlin-Huey Long era, Winrod thundered his rabid invective from his Wichita headquarters, clipped his mustache like Hitler's, lumped Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower as members of the "international Jewish banking fraternity" trying "to sovietize...
...seems that the now infamous article entitled "Hayes Bickford" has elicited many responses. In keeping with the noncommittal, ambiguous style of the recent CRIMSON articles on the integration issue, both the bigot and "latent liberals" of the community have been satisfied. Congratulations on your spurious success...