Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel that religious beliefs are among the central issues in the conflict between the Soviet sphere and the "West...
...regret that you feel compelled to reject religious views, and do you often wish it were possible for you somehow to recover religious faith, even though at the same time it appears impossible...
Religious questioning actually leads, as many ministers point out, to a type of humanism--Christian sentiment not necessarily entailing belief in God or organized religion. This feeling, most evident among those who attend church infrequently, results from the leaven of the pragmatic, liberal Harvard education intensifying pre-existent doubts. Doubting, for 55 per cent of Harvard Protestants, started in secondary school. Under the influence of the College atmosphere doubting grows into agnosticism or into humanism. "I personally feel this humanism is much better than drabby churchiosity," a very prominent minister commented...
...addition, a tenth would like to see a Third Party successfully founded to crusade forcibly for their political beliefs. Though a few students ask for an American Conservative Party, most of the tenth are radicals who feel that their proposals will not be accepted, or accepted fast enough, in the present party structure. Almost all those who termed their political temperament "radical" also asked for a Third Party of the Left...
...best in human life, although certain minor errors and shortcomings are necessarily apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence of the Church may be on the whole harmful. I do not feel I can give it my active support. 16 The Church is a stronghold of much that is unwhole-some and dangerous to human welfare. As far as I am concerned, the sooner its influence declines, the better...