Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success, for an ecclesiastical trial. "It is true that I have spoken four or five times against the regime," he said, "but I have always spoken as a priest, as a Christian, and as a Catholic. Priests all over the world today have taken up the fight against Communism on the same grounds-and of course I am among them. But there is totalitarianism of the right and the left, and from the moral and religious point of view they are equally wrong...
Light from Russia. Foreigners who keep track of the claims, and the prodigal expenditure of newspaper space on them, are inclined to doubt that they are signs of nationalism. These days Communism is in an internationalist mood and the claims of the Russian propagandists are widely pushed abroad. The purpose may be to convince prospective foreign proselytes that Russia, through the years, has been a source of scientific light and not (as was generally the case) a dismal swamp of scientific darkness. From this premise it is easy to argue that the U.S.S.R. is still a source of scientific light...
...propaganda, Lysenkoism is promising. The so-called backward peoples of the world, to whom Communists are making an intense appeal, may like the suggestion that a better environment (provided, of course, by Communism) can turn their children, in one generation's time, into superiors of the strutting white men who have ruled them for centuries past...
...Division of Foreign Missions: "Some of the conservative boards may feel that doing mission work under the Communists is compromising with the Devil, but most of the larger boards feel that if we are allowed to teach Christianity, or even live a life of Christian witness alongside Communism, we would do it. We believe Christianity can stand on its own feet . . . We're willing to do a lot of experimenting. There are enough people who are willing to risk their own welfare to do so, and we boards wouldn't be true to Christ if we didn...
Asked how he determines whether a person is a Leftist or not (he declined to discuss anyone in terms of Communism), Griffin explained he reads the person's works, discusses the person with others, and looks up articles about whomever he is studying...