Word: godless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both were connected with the highly hypothetical but heuristically significant choice between war and American surrender "if the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union or surrender to the Soviet Union." Among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one. And the group of 215 who chose war included over four-fifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief...
...this crucial question a correlation between religious conviction and political policy is dimly suggested which, if it can be trusted, is of the very first philosophical importance. There are two statistical facts 1.) that among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative in the face of an otherwise inevitable world war with the Soviet Union was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality...
...Soviet Communism." the new Secretary of State had written of Stalin's Problems of Leninism, "starts with an atheistic, godless premise. Everything else flows from that premise. If there is no God, there is no moral or natural law . . . Since there is no moral law, there is no such thing as abstract right or justice. Laws are the means, the decrees, by which the dictatorship of the proletariat enforces its will 'for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies' . . . There is a duty to extend this system to all the world...
...Belo Horizonte's Roman Catholic archbishop, Niemeyer's hangar looked more like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, Archbishop Dom Antonio dos Santos Cabral called the structure "unfit for religious purposes...
...resolution, says Father Graham, seems deliberately to avoid the antireligious aspect of Communism. "The closest it comes to mentioning this side of life under Communism is a classic circumlocution. The Red program is described as 'this process of assimilation of ancient religiously imbued cultures into a Godless culture.' ... An outsider can only speculate that the World Order Study Conference seemed to be reverting to the strong pacifism characteristic of American Protestantism before...