Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spiritually as well as politically Japan last week moved closer to Nazi Kultur. Founded in Tokyo under the sponsorship of Prince Sanetaka Ichijo was the Federation to Campaign Against Christian Organizations, whose doctrine, an unintended caricature of Nazi race-&-soil theories, affirms: "Japan is a land of gods. . . . Christianity offers...
Anti-Adlermann Sirs: With reference to Emil Adlermann's letter in [the Sept. 9] issue, p. 4, the "God Strafe England" paragraph stamps him as a Hun and true to type. May I ask him which God is to strafe England? The Christian God-the God of the universe...
The Church's insistence on the dignity of man runs counter to the totalitarian belief that man was made for the State, and its decline has aided the dictatorships. Last week the scientists took a step toward the Church's view, with their fellow delegates condemned the gods...
State religion of Japan since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has been Shintoism ("The Great Way of the Gods"), a native Japanese system of nature and ancestor worship. Shrine Shinto is worship of the Imperial ancestors. Since the invasion of Manchuria Japanese nationalists have emphasized its religio-patriotic importance.
But the decline of New England was just as essential to the completeness of this legend. The twilight of authentic gods is grand rather than gloomy. The greatness of the New England mind was authentic and the best guarantee of its later revival. Wrote Critic Brooks: "The goldenrod rises again...