Word: irreligion
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...ridiculed the "bewildering Catch-22 logic" behind the 1985 Aguilar vs. Felton decision forbidding public school teachers to instruct in parochial schools. He remarked that the court's generally high level of neutrality between what he called religion and irreligion (e.g., barring prayer in public schools) would have struck the framers of the Constitution as "bizarre...
When Merton entered the monastery 43 years ago, Roman Catholic religious orders were faithful to the rigorous disciplines of old. A little-known New York writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...
...abuse of language to call "Citizen Tom Paine a soldier-atheist"? He was an avowed deist who wrote The Age of Reason to combat French irreligion...
...general, complained Literature and Life not long ago, irreligion is lax, while religion is zealous. Not only did the Communists fail with a program of building youth clubs, so that churches now outnumber clubhouses in some areas, but the churches are warmer and cozier than the clubs. Example: without openly taking the offensive, but "quietly and peacefully," the Russian Orthodox Church has infiltrated the industrial region around Perm in the Urals, so that "alongside the universities of culture, universities of obscurantism flourish." Unlike the propagandists for atheism, "these holy fathers are not deterred from their duties either by cold...
...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...