Word: futilitarianism
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Every step in this logical process is also false," wrote Niebuhr, and proceeded to an example: the Unitarians had accused both Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Niebuhr of being "futilitarian gadflies." Said Niebuhr of himself and Sheen: "There is not only practically nothing in common between their thoughts, but both of them are very active in political causes, though the causes are more or less diametrically opposed...
...Futilitarian Christian gadflies like Professor Reinhold Niebuhr among the Protestants and Dr. Fulton J. Sheen among the Catholics are filling the air with their veiled terrestrial defeatism. No hope for mankind on earth but in heaven if you believe. . . . No, the leap into supernaturalism, which hungry hearts took two thousand years ago to compensate for their frustrations, is hardly proof to intelligent minds today of the existence of such a world...
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