Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rejection, One Concession. Armed with this evidence that France has complied with last February's U.N. recommendation to work for "a peaceful, democratic and just solution" in Algeria, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau moved to the attack against Arab nationalists in the U.N. Political Committee (see box). He cold-shouldered Morocco and Tunisia as impartial mediators. The FLN levies its own taxes and recruits young men in Morocco's Oudjda province, he pointed out. Tunisia has made barracks available to the Algerians in Tunis and Souk-el-Arba, transports their men and equipment in government military vehicles...
...also spoke of the role of money and material wealth in the coming age of automation, stating that "work and leisure must be evaluated in Christian terms...
While acknowledging their importance for having refeshing ideas, Miller sniped at such varied personalities and institutions as H. L. Mencken, Christian Science, Marxism and "athelstic existentialsm." The latter, he said, lacks spiritual and social vitality, while Christan Science he called an "opium cloud of religion, the idolatry of spiritualism...
...then cited the tie between Christianity and the intellectual world. Finally, he said, the Christian faith is a true faith...
Miller stated that Christian theology, when true to itself, explains history to the community. Therefore, he said, "to become a Christian is to make Christian history our history, to make community faith our faith...