Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been led to the surely unbiblical habit of speaking as though we had in the church a continuation of the incarnation of the Word of God. If that were so, then manifestly . . . enslaved mankind would have to expect its salvation from us -from our clear grasp of the world's historical situation, from the progress and action and hoped-for future triumphs of the church as the embodiment and representative of Jesus Christ and God Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took...
...believe that every "real scientist" would agree with our eminent demographer, Warren Thompson, who states: "There can be no hope for a decent life for all mankind unless birth rates in all parts of the world are soon reduced to about one-third of the physiological maximum...
...leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...
This incongruous combination of adventures high and low runs through most serials of the fantastic variety. Perhaps this is necessary, for if Superman saved the mankind regularly twice a month, his Hooper rating might fall off. Even so, his sponsors have found it wise to offer trinkets and small prizes to encourage the unseen audience of juvenile consumers...
...prayers. School authorities refused, on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to worship non-Christian gods in a Christian institution. Representatives of the 800 students promptly protested that they merely wanted to do the will of Gandhi, who "died not only for India but for the whole of mankind...