Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very obvious attack on religion in this country took place May 4, 1969 when a man had the unmitigated gall to walk into a church and demand 60% of its annual income for "reparation" for slavery [May 16]. I question the true motives of people like Forman. I don't believe they are after reparation; I believe they are after something bigger, whether it be an attempt to establish black supremacy, or part of a plan even more nefarious. Slavery died over 100 years ago, and today's Negro is no more a slave than is today...
...church members shouldn't have left; Forman should have-by the nape of his neck and the seat of his pants...
...Pope Paul's patrological housecleaning ["The Saints Go Marching Out," May 16] in the name of "modernity" marks a curious tactical reversal. For almost two millennia the church passed off its myth as historical truth. When this stance was undermined by modern cosmography and anthropology, the church began promoting instead increasingly reason-divorced myth-dogma, e.g., the immaculate conception and bodily assumption of St. Mary. At least the implication was "Here is myth for myth's sake, it's good for your souls," a kind of return to Tertullian's "Credo quia absurdum." Now suddenly there...
...seems strange that the church should make the feasts of the patrons of Uganda and Japan mandatory while making optional the feast of the Irish patron, St. Patrick...
Walking around Cambridge, Ince certainly doesn't look like your basic jock, not even your basic Harvard jock, a supposedly more refined species. He's strange in other ways, too. For one thing, Ince goes to church, which is enough to set anyone apart from the crowd these days. In addition, he seems to study fairly conscientiously during the term. This is not criticism, just bewildered observation...