Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard man for any century to live with. In 17th century England, already a melee of warring religions and political factions, he founded a rudely revolutionary new movement, which became the Society of Friends. A weaver's son from Leicestershire, Quaker Fox preached "God's free gospel" loudly and with a countryman's directness. He attacked other religions indiscriminately, and the fierce pacifism of his followers was, politically speaking, highly suspicious...
...occurred when disciples of the "scientific outlook" or "atheist humanism," who began their movements as a protest against Christianity, fell prey to substitute "religions" of their own devising. "[This] retreat from Christianity into religion . . . may fill that [spiritual] vacuum . . . giving life to the paganisms and idolatries . . . from which the gospel once delivered...
...Lafayette) Ron (for Ronald) Hubbard has whipped up the bastard word "Scientology," which he defines as "knowing about knowing" or "the science of knowledge." His latest ology is compounded of equal parts of science fiction, dianetics (with "auditing," "preclears" and engrams), and plain jabberwocky.* Hubbard has preached his gospel to the British; he spent last week drumming for converts in Philadelphia. Awed by his own accomplishments, Hubbard has awarded himself the degree of "D. Sen."-doctor of Scientology...
...also a redemptive role to fulfill . . . Evangelism, the confrontation of men with Jesus Christ so that they may accept Him as their Saviour and follow Him as their Lord in the fellowship of the church, is the church's primary task. It is not sufficient that the Gospel be preached in established places of worship. It is necessary that it be taken to the people. Let our complacency be shaken by the fact that today, even while church membership stands at an alltime peak in the history of our country, there are still 66 million people in the nation...
Carrier Corp.'s Vice President Howard M. Dirks interpreted the NAMsters' new gospel as to their dealings with labor. Said he: "Let's hope that none of us thinks . . . that we can now return to some of the autocratic or paternalistic methods of dealing with employees . . . practiced in the past. We have learned a lot ... in recent years . . . and we dare not step backward." Said N.A.M.'s Managing Director Earl Bunting: "Self-interest dictates the highest order of industrial statesmanship ... in the public interest...