Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Christian...
Sirs: I do not wish to continue my subscription of TIME. I am a Southerner and think the South more able to enforce law and order than those that condemn her. I am a Christian and think you are the reverse. I do not like your policy or your apparent principal...
Since all Christian bodies from Roman Catholic to Holy Rollers (except the small Unitarian sect) hold that Jesus was divine, it appears that only about 30% of Dartmouth is Christian. Something over 40% are non-Christian theists, and the balance are either agnostics or atheists. All this, of course, on the assumption that Dartmouth students are keen enough to know what they are. The fact that 455 said they are active church members while only 330 subscribe to the distinguishing tenet of Christianity indicates that the boys are not sure what they...
...warn the Christian population under my leadership against the influences of the Protestant controlled and heretical Young Men's Christian Association on Catholic youths. I base my warning on the Pope's decree dated Nov. 5, 1920. The Y. M. C. A. is neither Polish nor Catholic. It is supported by Protestants and heretics and anyone who gives a cent to this institution is harming the Church and Polish youth. We can not give our Catholic youth to this American heresy, born and bred of Protestant propaganda, which is now being spread over the whole world...
Just who is this standardized American anyway? He is, it would seem, an even more elusive personality than this Christian Gauss. For just what are his standards, and wherein lies the vice of standardization so long as the standards partake to some extent of the nature of truth...