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...
...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 may 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...
...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...
...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...