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...will win the allegiance not of the comfortable but of the insecure and the impoverished. It is particularly important that America, as the most powerful and wealthiest of the nations in the western world, should acquire a higher degree of humility. Without it we will insist upon political creeds and political reforms which Europe regards not as the creed of democracy but as the characteristic prejudice of a very wealthy nation. . . . Without humility and the imagination to think beyond the characteristic prejudices of American life we cannot win the ideological battle against Communism...
...Christians who take their creed seriously, they matter a great deal. Last week, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, made that point clear. Before the solemn Convocation of Canterbury, he spoke bluntly to (and about) one of his bishops, the Right...
...told a reporter afterwards. Dr. Fisher plans to take no further action. But his rebuke of the free-thinking Bishop served a wider purpose: to remind all easy-going Anglicans that 1) what a man believes is as important as what he does, and 2) the Apostles' Creed means what it says, even if some of those who recite it don't think...
Unitarians crave a creed like a hole in the head. It is their boast that no member of their Association (they do not call it a church) could ever be tried for heresy. But Unitarians sometimes find that their cautiously passionate belief in free thinking does not accent the unity in Unitarianism...
...pathetic comedy of the investigation stems from the fact that Hollywood is a business, and gladly neglects issues that will lose it customers. To come out for any unfashionable political creed, and especially Communism, would be unheard of by the conservative moguls who feed the public their weekly escape from life. So when Witness Menjou proudly declares that he prevented quantities of "sly, subtle, class-struggle propaganda" from sneaking into films, one can only wonder whether their almost total absence stems from his efforts...