Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skills have been developed for their invariable cure." But to Science Fictioneer Hubbard, these achievements soon seemed like kid stuff. He broke with the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation in Wichita, "to further pursue investigations into the incredible and fantastic," as the foundation puts it. Now, the founder of still another cult, he claims to have discovered the ultimate secrets of life and the universe, and to be able to cure everything, including cancer...
...space suits, space guns and rockets in almost any toyshop. In 50-odd science fiction magazines, space travel is a favorite theme. Eight comic strips and at least two TV programs are flying through space. "Scientific" space books are brisk sellers. But not all members of the space cult are storytellers, crackpots or kids. Some serious scientists believe that space flight will surely come, and perhaps soon, but they know that separating facts and fancy about space travel is almost as difficult as a trip to the moon...
...short, says Dr. Carmichael, higher learning has fallen for "the cult of objectivity, [which] has resulted in a generation of irresponsible intellectuals, of men without convictions. As a warning, Germany is cited. There scientific learning reached its peak . . . Yet it was also there that the leadership . . . was unable to resist a fanatic who led the nation to a ruin more tragic . . . than that suffered by any other in modern history...
Wrote the cardinal: "Naziism, an arrogant apostasy from Jesus Christ, distinguished itself for its errors in the cult of the dead . . . Now Divine Providence has eliminated the roots of evil with the annihilation of Naziism, yet some countries-including our own-still preserve practices of Nazi origin, such as the cult of the dead, without discrimination of religious belief, or ... the cult of the Cross of the Fallen, before which cold political homage is rendered . . . The cause has gone, but we go on breathing a pagan, Nazi atmosphere...
...goes on: "Most of the magic advertised by psychiatry, some of what passes for psychoanalysis, much of clinical psychology, all of religion, and a good deal of the less pretentious arts of medicine and social service, is based upon a cult of passivity and surrender." The Apostle Paul, Lindner complains, took Jesus' rebellious creed and made of it a soporific distillation which has "softened the muscles of resistance to exploitation...