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...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...
Horrified, he notified his bishop; equally horrified, the bishop consulted canon law and found a clause stipulating that "epitaphs...and tomb decorations must not contain any material offending the Catholic Church or piety." Forthwith, he ordered the godless symbols removed from the tombstone...
...becomes obvious with the passage of time that the Godless Russians are making great strides in the scientific and industrial fields, what is going to happen to this towering edifice of superstition we call religion...