Word: godless
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...presume to the world-saving functions reserved for God Himself. Said he: "We ought to give up ... every thought that the care of the Church, the care of the world, is our care . . . For just this is the final root and ground of all human disorder; the dreadful, godless, ridiculous opinion that man is the Atlas who is destined to bear the dome of heaven upon his shoulders...
...parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter and Paul and all the apostles and martyrs ... He also reincarnates the symbol of the fathers and mothers of America-whose thoughts, powers, sacrifices and achievements in the building of this mighty...
Andrew bought it. From that time on he was lost and godless in the eyes of Bishop John Helmuth and the others. In accordance with the 17th article of the Amish doctrine, the Dordrecht Confession of Faith,* the Mennonite "mite" or "shun" was placed against him. It declares: ". . . we believe and confess that if anyone . . . is so far fallen as to be separated from God ... he must also be shunned so that we may not become defiled . . . [and] that he may be made ashamed...
...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...
...dethrone reason; great terror, in a brave man or a cringer, can turn loose adrenal energies which must exhaust themselves in outrage and spoliation. It would be untrue to describe as a form of religious madness, even in religious India, a madness which operates also with equal fury among godless men. But where deep religiousness is present it is inevitably used, inevitably adds its own peculiar intensity...