Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi tried a new racial tactic. In last week's Democratic primaries, prospective voters could be required, under a state law passed last March, to swear their faith in "party principles." In Mississippi, Democratic party principles not only mean white supremacy, but include opposition to federal antilynching, anti-poll-tax and fair employment practices laws. The new law was frankly designed to keep Negroes from voting...
Bihar villagers remembered a pre-Hindu superstition that the gods require human sacrifice whenever any major building is under construction. The faith of the Thugs, worshipers of Kali, Goddess of Destruction, who thought their goddess was the more pleased the more people they strangled in her name, had never quite died out. In the last 30 years about a dozen people have been sentenced in Bihar, Bengal and Madras on charges of offering human sacrifices...
...failure of the church on this personal level ... I think that the first business of the church is to redeem me. And I don't mean to redeem me in the merely social sense which convinces me that the Golden Rule ought to be my Confession of Faith. By redeeming me, I mean personal redemption-the process by which I'm spiritually shaken apart and spiritually put together again, and from which I-the personal I-emerge a totally different person...
...Another peril of democracy as a religion is that, without a more inclusive religious faith, we identify our particular brand of democracy with the ultimate values of life. This is a sin to which Americans are particularly prone. . . . There are no historic institutions, whether political, economic or religious, which can survive a too uncritical devotion. . . . But even if our democracy were more perfect than it is ... devotion to democracy would still be false as a religion. It tempts us ... to give a false and idolatrous religious note to the conflict between democracy and communism, for instance...
...hundred years ago, 34 determined Lutherans fresh from Saxony met in a tiny Chicago church. There was one thing about this big new country that they could not abide-U.S. Lutherans were backsliding from the strict, exacting faith of their founder. To combat this trend, the 34 founded the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States...