Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement issued by DR. REINHOLD NIEBUHR, Yale's DEAN LISTON POPE (see RELIGION) and 60 other members of Christian Action, a national organization of Protestants...
...manner and his mode of living are Western. Brought up on John Wesley and Adam Smith, he worshiped for years as a Christian, and still devotes several hours a week to robust singing of Christian hymns. But when the militarists took over in the '30s to pursue their dream of empire, Hatoyama accepted it, endorsed it on a tour of foreign capitals, wrote a book praising Hitler and Mussolini. He was not close enough to the team to be completely trusted, so before war's end he was nudged into retirement; but he was not clean enough...
...second category of religious programming he found even worse: "First of all, there are the popular skits about wholesome families, presumably model Christian families; some of them are the best argument for celibacy advanced since the Middle Ages. I would never have believed that anything could be stickier than some of the soap operas, but religion has outdone even Lever Brothers. The difficult art of Christian family life is reduced to little moralisms and pleasantries, and to the cheerful conclusion that it pays in the end . . . Religion is introduced as a fragment of ritual, or a moralistic cliche...
Then there are the programs that offer solutions to personal or social problems under the guise of religion. If there is Christian truth in them at all, it is generally a crumb fumbled off the whole, meaningless or misleading by itself: "For example, 'brotherhood' is lifted out of relation to God's Fatherhood, which is seldom mentioned . . . and mere brotherhood is offered in the name of Christianity as a nostrum to keep America strong. In the name of God, this kind of thing represents a prostitution of the Christian faith and a crucifixion anew of the Christ...
...Song or a Shot. Dean Pope also gave the back of his hand to the "peace-of-mind cult." He objects to identifying Christianity with it, no matter how popular it is or how many people claim to have been helped. "The mambo is popular, and innumerable people have been helped by patent medicines, hospitals and social-work programs, but not every popular or helpful thing is to be described as Christian or presented under Christian auspices...