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Islam has much to do with such attitudes. Religion alone is not strong enough to withstand Communism if other conditions are right; Catholic Cuba and Confucianist China demonstrated that. But Islam has a permeating discipline in Arab culture that shapes politics and unites even dissident leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Gaddafi subscribes to the same simplistic explanation of the new order offered by Nasser before his death: "The reason that Arab socialism is different from Communism is because our socialism believes in God while Communism is atheistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Arabs v. Communists: Thanks But No Thanks | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...Your review of the book on Chambers and Hiss [Feb. 10] is, TIME-wise, strangely unruffled. You appear to rest your case on the tushery that dead men shouldn't be slandered, ho hum, as if TIME had grown big and strong on Confucianist milk. Why not work over a dead man-if that is what he deserves from a history he malevolently affected? Surely the point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...word Christian will be dropped from the title of the Unitarian monthly Christian Register (henceforth to be called the Unitarian Register). The American Unitarian Association at its 132nd annual meeting declared in a resolution: "It is our desire to encourage all religious liberals, whether Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucianist, Hindu, Moslem or others, to unite with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention this month, in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Earthquake Man | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Good fare for children is the simple Blackfoot fable Why People Die Forever ("so that we shall be sorry for each other"), the Confucianist fable With Deer's Milk He Supplied His Parents. By & large Editor Smith leaves out the sort of stories that Sunday-school teachers rely on. Her Old Testament anthology omits the tales of Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Daniel in favor of the minor prophets Amos, Hosea and Micah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Child's Forest of Religion | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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