Word: irreligion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard is compelled to attend the services of a particular church (or temple, or mosque); but neither should any church be compelled to admit into itself ceremonies of other sects. To insist on such compulsion is certainly not to favor tolerance against intolerance. It is rather to prefer irreligion (or perhaps mere religiosity) to every conviction of religious reality. By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...
...current retreat from Christianity, as Anglican Casserley sees it, is not solely a modern phenomenon; other times have had their lapses too. What distinguishes the retreat now is its confusion, and one of the two "avenues" it takes. The first, the retreat into the "vacuum" of irreligion, has always been a passing phase. The second is far more dangerous. It 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...
...Irreligion & Faith. "A religious people is a people which prays. If the spirit of religion has declined in our times, it is because many, immersed in worldly pursuits, have ceased to pray...
...After a four-month study, eight eminent Yale alumni cleared their university of charges that it is fostering Communism or atheism in its classrooms. Not a single member of the faculty "is trying to undermine or destroy our society . . ." Furthermore, "the charge that Yale is encouraging irreligion or atheism is without foundation." The alumni added: "The business of a university is to educate, not to indoctrinate ... In the ideal university, all sides of any issue are presented . . .; all sides, not just those that may be currently popular with the trustees and the alumni . . . This is Yale's policy...
...faiths together for this purpose of bearing witness that God is the way of truth and peace. Even the Christian churches have not yet found themselves able to say, with one voice, that Christ is their Master and Redeemer and the source of their strength against the hosts of irreligion and the danger of a world catastrophe. They have not been able to agree on a simple statement like that...