Word: godlessly
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...long ago, a movie queen shocked even the godless with her "God is a living doll." Now, a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church comes out with, "Television is a blessing . . . Radio is like the Old Testament . . . television is like the New Testament, [both] being the most spiritual symbols of truth," etc. What trash coming from the spiritual guide of millions of faithful! Let Hollywood be the heaven for this television star...
When Tufts University was still a grassy hilltop almost 110 years ago, a group of Universalist ministers met in New York and decided that colleges in general were godless things which produced mainly bigots, atheists and scoffers. They said, of course, that Harvard was the one exception to this, but agreed that even Harvard was too close to a city of temptation to be really safe...
...that may be active, with administration of the sacraments and even large church attendances, but controlled by them through the choice of the priests in charge. The most tragic aspect of today's persecution is that the church is in servitude, tricked into serving the ends of the godless...
...very much in a minority in this Babylon. The Catholics and Jews outnumber the Protestants, and there are, besides, a great number of secularized Jews and gentiles, who have some vague connection with a traditional faith but who cannot simply be put into the category of the 'godless' who must be reclaimed . . . Not only will Graham's 'message' be unable to reach these people at any significant point . . . but the Graham revival will actually accentuate every prejudice which the modern 'enlightened,' but morally sensitive, man may have against religion...
...article. I feel more strongly than ever that the force causing my generation to join churches, nurse our babies (indeed, have them at all!) and raise little vegetable gardens in our subdivision rectangles is not nearly so much dread of The Bomb as retreat from the dank void of Godless intellectualism that shrouded us Depression babies, and that Mencken symbolized...