Word: creed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young dry-goods clerks, George Williams and Edward Beaumont. From the first it was a religious movement of laymen, in spirit ecumenical, evangelical and often puritanical. Aimed at young workers who had become indifferent to religion in the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution, the Y.M.C.A. had no formal religious creed, urged its members only "to exert a Christian influence in the sphere of their daily calling...
...Cult: 'I believe (credo) that you can worship God better on the golf course than you can in church ..." Members of the cult demonstrate their devotion to the creed by making their Stations of the Course (18 in number) each Sunday morning...
Read last week by Russell, under the glare of television lights in London's Caxton Hall, it said: "We are speaking on this occasion not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings ... The world is full of conflicts, and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between Communism and antiCommunism. Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but we want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species . . . The best authorities...
None of this means that the Communist system is about to collapse. The Soviet bloc still has great and growing military power; it still has a firm creed that calls for domination of the world. The U.S. and the West cannot afford to relax and let the new Communist tactics win the old Communist objective. What the new Soviet stance indicates is that policies of strength, firmness and vigilance on the part of the U.S. and the West have paid off, and that they should be continued...
...political preaching in Islam. The Moslems forced the government to take over Bahai headquarter with troops, are hoping to close Bahai schools, have introduced a bill to forbid Bahai members to hold government jobs. Said one Bahai leader: "We are not authorized by the Bahai's noble creed to fight or retaliate. The only thing we can do is to pull out gradually and leave the birthplace of our sect...