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...Founded in 1942 by conservative Protestants who objected to liberal tendencies in the old Federal Council of Churches, the association has sometimes seemed to be the great dissenter of U.S. Christianity. In past conventions, delegates hurled mighty anathemas at their list of enemies of the Gospel-liberal Protestants, Godless Communists, Roman Catholics eager for political influence. "But now we have a position." observes the Rev. Stan Mooneyham of Wheaton, 111. "We are no longer reacting...
...your classroom." Student life is equally free; attendance is not taken after freshman year and upper-class drinking in rooms is unrestricted. The student guidebook even recommends "sour hour" at a local tavern noted for TGIF parties ("Thank goodness it's Friday"). As in White's "godless" day, Cornell still has no religion department. As campus speakers, it welcomes not only
...scheming to push them out of the city. Urban renewal was just more land grabbing. One man said "On holidays, the streets of Donnelly Field are closed for processions and festivities. To let the city come in and destroy our way of life would be to let the godless people take over." The East Cantabridgians are "minutemen" organized to protect, as one Councillor put it, "their castles...their mansions...their little gardens." Of course, arguments upholding the public good against such defenses will do no good, but these defenses must be taken into account in planning and executing a renewal...
...Spiegel scandal, Adenauer did not go down without a fight. When his own coalition was endangered, Adenauer proposed that the potent opposition Social Democrats (S.P.D.) join with him" in a "grand coalition." Unconcerned by the fact that he had described the S.P.D. leaders in the past as godless, irresponsible and crypto-Communist, Adenauer told the Social Democrats that their "sense of responsibility" required that they help maintain a stable German government at this time of crisis. Socialist Chief Erich Ollenhauer listened but made no promises...
...Godfearing nation. The security of all mankind, as of the Jew, is to be found in a world in which God rules and in which all men have a sense of living under his judgment. The temporary and superficial toleration that the Jew enjoys in a completely secular, Godless world is no more than skin-deep." For no matter how deplorable is the history of Christian persecutions of Jews, Wyschogrod concludes, "the danger that threatens us today in this country is not forcible conversion to Christianity. Our danger is secularism, the disappearance of the word 'God' from...