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...Communist language, detente means surrender; peace means when the entire world is converted to Godless Communism. Every official in Washington should be aware of this difference in meaning, and not be deluded by Mr. Brezhnev's yearning for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1979 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...seriously entertained in America, and it reflects an instinctive, shrewd understanding of the American mind on Jones's part. The religious impulse in America is strong, much stronger, as De Toqueville points out, than in Europe, where religion is allied with politics and the social convention. Here, it suppresses godless ideologies. Yet another side of American nature is pragmatic and utilitarian, desiring rational justification for any act. Jones's philosophy embodied this conflict and, in a sense, mastered it. He could invest himself with religious charisma by using the traditions of American fundamentalist theology: faith healing, apocalyptic exhortations, visions...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: The Wisdom That Is Woe... ...the Woe That Is Madness | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

THIS YEAR'S contenders for LBJ's old Senate seat have spiced up their tired, worn-out rhetoric with a healthy dash of godless mud-slinging, perhaps hoping to arouse the state's sleeping voters. During the last few weeks, the studied, statesman-like poses originally struck by Republican incumbent John Tower and Democratic challenger Bob Krueger have, in part, given way to the childish stance of petulant name-callers. Virtually devoid of substantive issues, the campaign has become a contest to see who can paint the most nefarious portrait of his opponent. And the prize will most certainly...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Pissants and Pablum | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

Communism. "Much of the Catholic opposition to communism in the past has been based on the notion that it is 'Godless.' Godless it surely is, though much of capitalism is too; a much more effective argument would be that communism is inhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Andy's Answers | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...year-old Nobel laureate received a standing ovation as he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters. Then, like an Old Testament prophet, he denounced in an hourlong address such evils of modern American society as civic cowardice, immoral legalism, a licentious press, capitulation in Asia, and godless humanism. Excerpts from the speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Solzhenitsyn: Decline of the West | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

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