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...replied: "The answer to the first question is yes, and the answer to the second question is no." But the Rev. Guenter Jacob of Cottbus in the Soviet Zone of Germany saw things differently. "It is impossible." he said in a later speech, "to believe in both our Christian dogma and in the Communist dogma . . . It is an either-or proposition for any single-minded person...
Regarding your coverage of the ecumenical rhubarb: The comments [of the editor of the Christian Century] must surely place him foremost in the growing ranks of anti-Catholics who betray their religious inferiority complex by blindly condemning the church's dogma of infallibility. Rather than attempt to disprove this claim, the editor prefers to disqualify this assertion by simply stating it cannot be true . . . The amalgamation of quasi-secular interests and ministerial tea parties which he prefers leads to chaos simplified-the dilemma of the Protestant churches today. By the way, I'm a non-Catholic...
...European satellite). Before Russia collectivized, it had a normal surplus of some 10 million tons of grain a year. The surplus was used up; even so, more than 5,000,000 Russians starved to death. Only last year Russia's Nikita Khrushchev confessed that 35 years of Communist dogma have produced great failures and that farm production is lower than in Czarist 1913. Yet in the face of that confessed failure, Peking has chosen to gamble on the old system for China...
...Council-in short, the dictator. The son of a well-to-do peasant, he attended the founding meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. tirelessly organized China's peasants while others concentrated mistakenly on workers in the cities, ultimately forged the great peasant army and tailored the dogma which carried Communism to triumph in China. He had the opportunism to capitalize on Japan's aggression: "Our determined policy is 70% self-development, 20% compromise and 10% fight the Japanese." He had the ruthlessness to cut down obstacles: "A revolution is no invitation to a ban quet...
...fooled again! . . . There is no more reason to suppose that Einstein's relativity is anything final than Newton's Principia. The danger is dogmatic thought; it plays the devil with it." religion, and science is not immune from "I Have Been Saying . . ." Whitehead avoided dogma better than most through out his teaching career at Cambridge, London and, finally, Harvard, where he began his spectacular rise as a creative philosopher at 63, when most academicians are thinking of retirement. "The vitality of thought is in adventure," Whitehead told Price. "That is what I have been saying all my life...