Word: dogma
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Kluckhohn denied neither the "historical authenticity of Christ nor the existence of God. But he criticized Christianity for posing its dogma as the single truth, for the effort of its missionaries to impose alien values on non-Christian societies, and for "barbarism and destruction unmatched" by any nation...
...civilization? "The awakening of Western Europe that is normally called the Renaissance,'1 says Seitz, "brought something into the lives of men that had never before existed . . . The basic idea was that the minds of men should not be bounded in the larger sense by any pattern of dogma or tradition, but should be free to explore all aspects of life in all fields without restraint...
...participate in the Renaissance. "The 1917 Revolution seemed at first to be a step which would greatly accelerate the process of Westernization . . . [But] the Soviet leaders have 'abandoned the idea of the Renaissance and are now in the process of developing a pattern of culture as burdened with dogma as . . . anything known in the past millennium...
University of Utah alumni.* Both books still raise many Mormon hackles by their rough handling of Mormon dogma...
...problem in order to achieve the goal, and a fanatic, rabid -obsession of devotion to Communism and hatred for Anglo-American resistance to them-all the newspaper talk is to them gospel truth. And in this respect they are to be taken as disciples and fervent followers of the dogma. Not much imagination, nor quick brains nor much intellectual baggage nor sensitivity-but enormous stores of character, undeviating loyalty to their creed, fanatic belief in their own cause, fanatic hatred and mistrust of anything else...