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...Judaism is neither religion nor nationality. It cannot be defined in terms of race, creed or color. It is a hereditary neurosis, a triumph of involuntary affiliation. Perhaps that is its fascination for Americans today...
...work glorifying the slave-labor projects that were reshaping Soviet society and killing millions in the process. The "histories" and editorials that spewed forth in Gorky's name pandered to Stalin's every whim; his formulation of socialist realism resulted in the most servile cultural creed ever imposed on the human intellect. Then in 1936, just before the Great Purge began, Gorky mysteriously died. During the Bukharin "show trial," witnesses "confessed" that he had been murdered by the "rightist-Trotskyite conspiracy...
When Sheriff Dorman Crowe appointed two Negroes as deputies last year, the move seemed to please the Negro community. The deputies, O'Neal Moore, 34, and Creed Rogers, 42, mostly patrolled the Negro area and were welcomed there...
...Inches to Go. The confession itself has a few inches to go before it becomes the new creed of the church. Besides voting general approval of the committee's work, the assembly agreed that the confession should be studied by a new committee of 15 (about half of them laymen), which will consider suggestions forwarded by the presbyteries. But no one foresaw any serious change in direction and scope...
...Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed, the Scots Confession of 1560, the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563, excerpts from 1566's Second Helvetic Confession, the Westminster Confession and Shorter Catechism, and the 1934 Barmen Declaration, a rejection of secular claims to power over the church, composed by Germany's anti-Nazi Confessing Church...