Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumor. The genius of India has ever been for myth, not rationality: and no man's reason may be expected to remain intact under the intricate chemistries of horror, heartbreak, revenge, the vertiginous contagion of mobs, a thousand years' collective, unconscious fertilization in allegiance to one faith and culture...
...Gandhi and Nehru and their like, innocently intent upon their lofty goal, ascribed communal strife to British machination, so blinding themselves that, in all good faith, they assumed that once liberty was achieved, communal violence would immediately cease, and brotherhood and British guilt prove themselves thenceforth...
...lives charitably by the Golden Rule, helps to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, what's the difference whether he believes in the Incarnation, the Resurrection-or even in a personal God? To many a good "liberal" who calls himself a Christian, such articles of faith matter very little...
...divorce. Many of his colleagues have undertaken to tell him off. But last week's public rebuke by the Primate of All England was the sternest he has yet received. This time, it was not a question of mere difference of opinion, but of his Church's faith. Last March, Barnes had published a new book, The Rise of Christianity. In it he wrote...
...reproduction from unfertilized egg-cells is common. . . . However, if biological research should show that in humanity a virgin birth could take place, and that therefore the 'miracle' of the Virgin Birth of Jesus was not impossible, those who now regard the miracle as essential to the Christian faith would feel disquieted. It would be asked why the Son of God should be born in a manner common among the insects, rather than by a normal human process...