Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adding a new catch-word to his growing collection, Mr. Lippmann fixed on the President's references to religion as being the casiest to distort. With a skill derived from experience, he took Mr. Roosevelt's concept of devout, pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this...
After three decades of research on the heredity mechanism of the genes and chromosomes he has a strong opinion on the first thing that biology should teach humanity: "All men are created unequal. No politics or poetry or dogma in this; just a straight clean fact of prime importance to decent thinking on human social problems; and possibly a fact that must be learned, digested and assimilated . . . before unreason ceases to be a threat to all forms of democratic government...
This contagious dogma was uncorked 70 years ago by an unlettered New England clockmaker, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Belfast, Me. He had discovered that he could mesmerize people, and in collaboration with a clairvoyant youth named Lucius Burkmar he cured all manner of ills. To him in 1862 went a formidable, twice-married invalid, Mary Morse Baker Glover Patterson, who after her third marriage was to become known as Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church...
...Cardijn calls it "the Jocist Sacrament." For the aim of Jocism is peaceful revolution, a Christian upsurge in the ranks of labor, based not upon Marxian materialism but upon the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. Jocism in doctrinates its 500,000 youngsters with that Catholic dogma which many non-Catholics (and lapsed Catholics like Hitler and Mussolini) find difficult to understand-the Mystical Body of Christ, in which, with Christ as the Head, Christians are members, in a living association which transcends nationalist and political ties...
...keeping with his prime tenet-that the General Staff should not find him a pliant Secretary-Louis Johnson takes an impish delight in upsetting army dogma and army officers. Though it is distinctly outside his province as Assistant Secretary, he once decided that too many enlisted men were serving as dog-robbers (officers' servants). A series of telegrams and cables querying every army post confirmed this conclusion, resulted in a marked reduction in the number on dog-duty. At present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels...