Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never Mind the Creed. At this point, good Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had admired Fosdick's fight, offered him the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Fosdick accepted- with conditions. The church must: 1) no longer require immersion; 2) grant membership to all Christians, regardless of creed; 3) build a new church in a less swank district; 4) pay the minister no more than $5,000. (Later, when the pressure of church work began to cut down his out side income, his salary was boosted close...
...arguing for or against the Soviets and their creed of Communism. But I do demand that a magazine of TIME'S pretensions and professed journalistic ideals face up to the unparalleled political situation that exists today: in 28 years Soviet socialism, the prelude to Communism, has unfurled its flag from Vladivostok to Berlin, Vienna, Belgrade and Bucharest. France and Italy are going Communist, in spite of the feverish behind-the-scenes efforts of British and Americans to prevent this "catastrophe." Most of Europe is going the same way. In China millions have embraced this creed. In fact, the Communists...
Between these two figures stands the bewildered man of today. The intelligentsia, who might point a way for him, are either equally confused or deliberately blind. The blind, Koestler believes, are chiefly those who continue to put their faith in the creed of the Commissar...
...Creed of the Commissar. In a confused and confusing era of human life, the Commissar offers a doctrine that is completely "reasonable." In place of the doubts and contradictions of contemporary science and religion, he offers an "infallible" economic interpretation of history. Finally, after a century of Utopian hopes, he offers the liberal "a real country, with real people-a glorious Russian compensation for a life of frustration...
Once the Leftist has nestled in to the security of the Commissar's creed he is not even critical of the Commissar's most outrageous acts. In the book's longest essay, Koestler discusses "the stupendous . . . ignorance of Soviet reality among the addicts of the Soviet myth." Soviet addicts cannot, or will not, believe that capital punishment is the penalty for going on strike in Russia. They cannot believe that a Soviet citizen may not leave his home for as little as 24 hours without notifying the police; that no one may go abroad without permission (under...