Word: irreligion
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...resignations of 53 professors at the end of his first year and who warns his faculty in form letters that their contracts may not be renewed. They found that his purge of liberalism has left every faculty member fearing for his job. They found that the charge of irreligion against Professor Turner was in large part a cloak for objections to his social and economic views...
...granted to Jews in 16 States, the bill at Albany was simply an attempt to bring New York into line. The general argument is that people of all creeds should be interested in intensifying the faith of others, in order to present a united front against the power of Irreligion. Last week the bill went to the rules committee and it was understood it would not be reported...
...faulty instruction and unjust treatment their sons are receiving, two explosions from alumni who are rabid because the team lost the last big game, and a postal card from 'A Citizen and Taxpayer' denouncing the whole institution as a sink of iniquity and a breeder of irreligion and sedition...
...only French college in the U. S." It was in Nimes, France, one solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they erected...
...this feat his life is spared by Kothra, the sheikess of the piece. First as prisoner, then as guest of Kothra and the Sheykh Haroun, her father, young O'Neill is torn between ancestral pride and desert love; also between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge...