Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The figure is imposing-tall, a bit jowly, dressed like a businessman in a dark three-piece suit. The backdrop, massed American flags and a 33-member choir of attractive college kids scrubbed to a sparkle, is Fourth of July inspiring. The words are measured out in an avuncular bass...
There is more. Society fattens its children on junk food and then permits them to be enlisted in pornographic films. The nation subdivides into a dozen drug cultures - the alcohol culture, the cocaine culture, the heroin culture, the Valium culture, the amphetamine culture, and combinations thereof. Legal abortions and the...
I will insist that despite the pomposity of grandiloquent phrases about Human Rights and endless phrase-mongering about liberty and justice, one must always judge a nation by the quality of its humanism and the manner in which it answers these simple questions: Are your poor clothed and fed? Are...
Thus our value is humanistic. Our pedagogy, therefore, is a pedagogy of humanism where man stands as the supreme value. Not property, not the sacredness of man-made systems; not the elaborate web of superstitious practices, but man in his poeticised wisdom and folly, his strength and his weakness, his...
John Paul, who rose to eminence in Communist Poland, made clear his urgent desire to eliminate priestly activism based upon Marxist dogma. The Pope emphatically rejected liberation theology, without ever using that phrase. Repeatedly emphasizing the value of each person before God, and the need for spiritual freedom, he used...