Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educators, clergymen, editors and officeholders, who sometimes falter but mean to lead...
...Czech puppet Parliament last month passed a church law, by the usual unanimous show of hands, which made all clergymen employees of the state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had consistently fought against the law; one manifesto, signed by 80% of the country's 7,000 priests, declared it "absolutely unacceptable." A memorandum sent to the government by the Council of Bishops a week after the passage of the law charged that it violated the Czech Republic's constitution...
...willingness of many clergymen and psychoanalysts to say soothingly that religion and Freud can get along fine with each other makes no sense to bright young (29) Irving Kristol, assistant editor of the bright young (four years) highbrow monthly, Commentary. In the current issue of his magazine, which is sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, Writer Kristol suggests that the peacemakers between the two camps are talking through their hats...
...basic tenets of Freud's psychoanalysis, Kristol says, was the conviction that religion is nothing but a combination of neurosis and illusion. Today, Author Kristol complains, many clergymen and psychoanalysts are trying to take over Freud's conclusions while ignoring the premises on which they were based...
Psychoanalysts and the friendly clergymen, says Author Kristol, tend to talk about human happiness instead of truth: they "blithely agree that religion and psychoanalysis have at heart the same intention: to help men 'adjust' ... to make them happy or virtuous or productive...