Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years have Britons boiled and bubbled in a religious controversy as they did last week over the affair of Mrs. Knight...
...Margaret Knight, fortyish, wife of a psychology professor at Aberdeen University and herself a part-time lecturer on the subject, had asked the BBC if she might broadcast her views on what she called "scientific humanism." The BBC duly scheduled her for three talks on its Home Service. Her subject: "Morals Without Religion." Mrs. Knight's first broadcast drew some criticism. Her second lifted the roof of Broadcasting House...
Neither Nymph nor Virgin. Soft-voiced, schoolmarmish Margaret Knight, who has no children of her own, undertook to advise "humanist parents" what to tell their offspring about God. "We can tell them," she said, "that everyone believed at one time, and some people believe now, that there are two great powers in the world: a good power called God, who made the world and who loves human beings . . . and a bad power called the Devil, who is opposed to God and who wants people to be unhappy and bad. We can tell them that some people still believe this...
Bossy Female. Although some of Britain's most eminent newspaper editorialists started swinging at Mrs. Knight, philosophers, including Bertrand Russell, have been saying the same things for years. Clergymen and letter-to-the-editor writers soon joined in. The issue: Should the government-owned BBC have given Humanist Knight...
...held, are no more entitled to broadcast time than a defense of polygamy, homosexuality, or Communism. The conservative Daily Mail did not agree. "Christianity is not so weak a faith that its adherents should run screaming from those who attack it," proclaimed the Mail on its front page. "Mrs. Knight has perhaps shocked a number of people into thinking for themselves." The liberal Star came out against the BBC; the conservative Standard and News both defended public airing of Mrs. Knight's views. The "panic" over Mrs. Knight, said the Laborite Daily Herald, is "an insult to public intelligence...