Word: materialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havre for New Orleans with a mixed human cargo. Of its 180 passengers, 60 were ordinary German immigrants, 80 were pre-Marxist communists who called themselves Icarians, and the other 40 were communists who called themselves Trappist monks. The Icarians were coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above the" terrors and sor rows of modern life as well as above...
...planted in Catholic publishing houses . . . The church is deprived of the last remnants of its property . . . Almost all church schools have been wiped out, and those which remain are painfully insecure . . . Teachers of religion are tested ideologically and are given directives on how to teach religion in the materialist spirit...
Jean Barois is the story of a young Roman Catholic intellectual who breaks with church and family, becomes a freethinker, wins a reputation as a progressive by pleading the cause of Dreyfus. Gradually (after his carriage accident) he becomes dissatisfied with materialist answers to matters of life & death, and in the end returns to the fold...
...third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...
...packed his thinking on peace and war, non-violence and violence, love and law, justice and coercion, into ten provocative words: "Christianity stands for the consecration, not the elimination, of force." Another sentence shows the originality, daring, and germinal nature of his theological thinking: "Christianity is the most avowedly materialist of all the great religions...