Word: church
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regard active connection with a church or synagogue as essential to my religious life...
...Below are four very brief, rough statements of various attitudes toward "the Church," that is, toward organized religion. Check the one that most nearly approximates your views...
...Church is the one sure and infallible foundation of civilized life. Every member of society ought to be educated in it and required to support...
...hypocrisy in the church, and immoral behavior among believers...
...whole, the Church stands for the best in human life, although certain minor errors and shortcomings are necessarily apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence of the Church may be on the whole harmful. I do not feel I can give it my active support. 16 The Church is a stronghold of much that is unwhole-some and dangerous to human welfare. As far as I am concerned, the sooner its influence declines, the better...