Word: godless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are, of course, others. There is Roger Hall, red-headed giant, able seaman; spawn, according to his rival, of smugglers and godless renegades; a man to stir the thin blood of Hope Langdon; canny even in his cups. There is Mate John Disney, widower, envious of Roger's virility, husband-to-be of Hope Langdon; a man weakened by the fringes of a Puritanical conscience. There are Jonas Dodge, Master, Zeke Nyas, Indian Quartermaster, and a dozen others. Mr. LaFarge has portayed all these swiftly and surely. But towering above them all is Jeremiah Disney, nephew of the mate...
While the Godless cheered, Red Soldiers shinnied up the steeple, tied ropes to it. A snorting tractor-symbol of the Five-Year Plan-was hitched to the ropes, snorted, backfired, got under way and pulled down not only Kolpana's spire but half the ancient church with it. Rushing into the ruins, Godless comrades seized and carried off the church's simple brass & copper fixtures, "needed to make Soviet airplanes...
Russia smuggled across to Finns in Finland last week, the Christmas campaign in Ingria began by seizing a total of nine Lutheran churches and arresting the Lutheran clergy. At Ranpyva the former Lutheran church had become a State cowbarn last week. At Retykyla enthusiastic Godless comrades organized a Godless Seminary, drummed up Finnish peasants who glumly took their places as students, will emerge after a course in Godlessness as "Godless Apostles...
Officially the Soviet State tolerates all religions, including the Mohammedan and Buddhist, and permits religious worship. Unofficially Soviet leaders from Stalin down support the Union of the Godless, encourage what they call its "educational activities" in Russia proper...
...remote parts of the Soviet Union local peoples and tribes are not greatly molested by the Union of the Militant Godless, lest they rebel. Thus letters reaching Moscow last week from Erivan, capital of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia, announced that on Nov. 13 the Congress of the Armenian Gregorian Church met at Echmiadzin, with British, French and U. S. delegates present and elected a new Gregorian supreme head, the former Archbishop Horan Murad-pekian of Erivan who at once assumed the title of His Holiness the Catholicos...