Word: misbeliefs
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...most provocative sections of the study deal with what the authors call "misbelief"-various Lutheran attitudes that seem to be responsible for what they regard as serious Lutheran faults. In a much-publicized 1966 work, Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism, Sociologists Charles Clock and Rodney Stark maintained that orthodox Christian beliefs-measured by such doctrines as miracles, life after death and a personal evil force-lead circuitously to antiSemitism. The Lutheran survey, say its authors, shows to the contrary that Christian orthodoxy and anti-Semitism are not related, but that prejudice, including antiSemitism, is clearly linked to various kinds...
...years. Already the study seems to give the lie to one cherished American cliché-that sincerity, not content, is the test of belief. If the findings successfully stand up to rigorous examination, modern sociology will have demonstrated what traditional Christian thinkers have long contended: that the fruits of misbelief may be harmful social attitudes...
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