Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Keynoter Gericke cried : "Paragraph 24 is something for our Party itself to interpret ! . . . We will go further entirely in the Nazi spirit!" The way to un-Jew the Bible, a majority of Nazi speakers made plain, is to reject the dogma of sin and, from this, reject the concept of a Messiah dying for the sins of others. In a spirit of Nazi compromise it was agreed that "the saintly individuality of Christ is beyond question, but He was only a human being unrelated to God." Exactly what positive line the new Nazi Christianity will take remained obscure...
...human ethics; as before. Author Mencken is constantly distracted by the red herring of the Christian Churches. "All the branches of Christianity suffer by the fact that they seem to be unable to take in the greatest contribution of the modern world to ethical theory, to wit, the concept of a moral obligation to be intelligent. . . . Its moral system remains an easy and grateful refuge for the weak and the sick, the stupid and the misinformed, the confiding and the irresolute, but there is little in it to attract men and women who are intelligent and enterprising...
...groups who rebels against his Leader may be fined any amount and sentenced to a year in jail. The purpose of NRA, so far as it is stated in the law, is to revive private business. The purpose of L. 0. U. G. E. is to advance a new concept of society...
...ecclesiastical leaders of the sixteenth century were confused by the beginnings of capitalism, so are they new confused by its ending. Not until the seventeenth century was the requisite adjustment made through the Christian doctrine of individuality, and now that the doctrine of individuality, has been dulled into the concept of individualism, we may expect the Christian doctrine of equality to orient the churches with a new economic society. So much had been pointed out by Leo XIII, but institutions are more sluggish than doctrines; Dr. Niebuhr has attempted to show the probable behavior of ecclesiastical institutions under the impact...
...Constitution is certainly elastic in the sense that the power of government over the individual is supreme, but it is also to be noted that the Supreme Court of the United States firmly upholds he dual sovereignty idea which was the basic concept of the Constitution as written by our forefathers. The decision is therefore a milestone in the direction of definition of fundamental constitutional rights, in America...