Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestantism being dominated and led around by leftists and fellow travelers? Such charges have recently been made, notably by Roosevelt-hating pamphleteer John T. Flynn, whose book, The Road Ahead, brought the Federal Council of Churches out fighting with a special pamphlet to refute its numerous misstatements. Last week, in his biweekly journal, Christianity and Crisis, anti-Communist Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr swun, some haymakers at right-wing critics on Protestant social thinking...
...Some of the reactions to the Flynn criticisms of the church might well prompt us as Protestants to be less concerned with the characteristic weaknesses of Rome, and a little more anxious about the vast morasses of sentimentality and human pride in which parts of the Protestant Church are sinking...
...scene of the original defeat comes the paragon of righteousness, Errol Flynn, a sheep herder whose father was killed in the great battle. Flynn knows the principle, "Thar hain't no reason why sheep and cattle cam't get along together...
...Flynn must combat the narrow-mindedness of the cattle ranchers, led in spirit by Alexis Smith who believes. "This here has been cattle land for as long as I kin remember . . . we cain't give up the fine things that our fathers and grandfathers fought for." When she further explains that sheep should not be allowed in the area because they tear out the grass by the roots, and because they smell bad, her position becomes clear: discrimination against animals because of the way they eat and the way they smell...
...raise this picture from the level of the ordinary to that of greatness, the element of mental transition is emphasized. Posing as a peddler, Flynn makes love to Miss Smith. When she is completely enraptured he tells her that he is a sheep man. At first she rejects him; she can't understand him because he believes differently than she does. But at the end of the picture she realizes that she erred. It makes no difference who you are or what you are, she says, I love you anyhow. Flynn recovers from a bullet which felled him a minute...