Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Told his weekly press conference that he does not intend to be pressured into a summit conference unless the Soviet Union shows evidence of good faith at the four-week-old Big Four foreign ministers' talks at Geneva. Said the President: "There has not been any detectable progress that to my mind would justify the holding of a summit meeting." He added that he would expect the foreign ministers to produce an agreed statement so that "we could see where we are apart on issues, whether we could narrow these gaps, and whether we could define the areas where...
There is a strong military cast to Soka Gakkai: ten families constitute a squad; six squads a company; ten companies a local district; and 30 districts a regional chapter that is directly responsible to headquarters, which is governed by a Supreme Commander with six appointed aides. The faith is propagated through weekly meetings of squad members, where there are long group discussions of the personal problems of members and how to overcome them...
...feel obliged by your atheism or agnosticism to enlighten others by persuading them to abandon their faith...
According to the poll, he himself will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings...
...judgment before God on the most intimate matters relating to his soul. Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first, a remorseless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of liberal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith of a large number of Harvard undergraduates is concerned. And the factor that stands in second place as cause of the atheist heresy is similarly an objection against the theology of the faith, grounded on the ethics of that same faith: Ivan Karamazov's outrage at "the existence of underserved...