Word: godless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London last autumn the World Union of Freethinkers held a convention (TIME, Sept. 19). Scareheaded by some religious papers as a "Godless Congress," the milk-mild meeting piqued Soviet Russian Godless leaders because it was not nearly atheistic enough. Last week a long article in Antireligioznik, Soviet Godless journal, analyzed the meeting's skimmed milk. Its complaint: because of the "Protestant mentality" of the London delegates, too much attention was paid to the "danger of the Vatican. . . . The reactionary role of other religions was insufficiently illustrated, as all are equally harmful...
Russia, in popular estimation, remained during 1938 the world's No. 1 Godless State. Russia's policy has long been to tolerate religion, and even to maintain, for propaganda purposes, certain puppet churchmen, so long as it appeared that there were people who wished the church's ministrations. To many Christians there has been some encouragement in the fact that Russia's League of Militant Godless, whose work the Government approves, has continued to fare not very well. Last spring the Government jailed a good many Orthodox prelates in what was heralded as a new drive...
...educate well, was Dartmouth quarterback, a hard-hitting blocker trained at Dean Academy by Coach Daniel ("Dirty Dan") Sullivan. Last year Heavenly Gates played on the Dartmouth team all season. Last September, Gates, a senior, did not show up for practice. Football, he told his friends, was commercialized, godless; the players swore too much...
Last week in London took place what British Roman Catholics and some zealous Nonconformists called "a vast World Congress of the Godless"-an international meeting of the World Union of Freethinkers. Founded in 1880, the Union is a coalition of ethical societies, the National Secular Society, the Rationalist Press Association. Freethinker doctrine defines a Freethinker not as godless but as "one who rejects unverifiable authority in matters of religious opinion, accepts reason as the ultimate test and regards it as the right and duty of every individual to think things out for himself. Many Freethinkers are deists; many...
Lamaist Tibet became a godless land nearly nine months ago when death came to the second, and more spiritual, of its "living gods," His Serenity the Panchen (or Tashi) Lama, "Buddha of Boundless Light" (TIME, Dec. 13). Long dead was Tibet's latest temporal god, the Dalai Lama. Last week, according to reports from India, Tibet still lacked living gods, was becoming increasingly embarrassed at having in its midst one god who was extremely dead. From Jyekundo, where the Panchen Lama died, a retinue of 1,000 lamas, Chinese soldiers and relations of the Buddha set out last winter...