Word: irreligion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the welter of confusion and dissension, which have at all times characterized the Protestant sects, has emerged much of the religious indifferentism, worldliness and irreligion which are the marks of contemporary living . . . [Protestants] have thus far found no means of halting the anarchy which stems unceasingly from the Protestant principle of exalting the private judgment of each individual. When Luther posted his thesis on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral, he unleashed upon the world a Pandora's box full of the evils of paganism, free love, divorce, and error from which the world has not yet recovered...
...weary smile, at least, is there; Martin du Gard is, personally, an avowed atheist. But there is also a bored grin at the starry-eyed rationalism and humanism of the pre-carriage Barois. To Author Martin du Gard, there are no sure answers to anything, either in religion or irreligion. But most of the sting is taken out of his irony by the simple compassion for human beings that salves every page in the book...
...rediscovered faith, Joad says: "It affords me a light to live by in an ever darkening world." The world's irreligion he does not blame on the churches, but on the people "who won't listen." He confesses to a leaning toward Anglo-Catholicism, but is un-Joadishly diffident about airing his theological views. "I am such a new boy at this," he explains, "that I'd better not say any more about...
...position to dictate to the Arabs, since the Arab chieftains cannot keep power without American dollars for Arab oil. They would never so much as think of negotiating with the Russians-their feudal life cannot withstand the inroads of Communism, and their religious fanaticism recoils from Soviet irreligion...
...drawing up a fine constitution. You get it through the process of history. You grow into it." The feelings of his fellow theologians are more mixed. Some criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common tares of mankind. Some feel that he could do with more human warmth and less intellectual incandescence...