Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe, as the Modernist does, that God has given us in the Bible all the truth we need to know. I can enjoy the sincere, and beautifully phrased religious sayings of Mica, but I don't believe Mica when he says the world is flat. God is the great moral power working through humanity. He is the great evolving power bringing us to better things. But he didn't cause Germany to become embroiled in war, as I am told Dr. Straton claimed, nor does he have a hand in isolated acts of that sort...
...subjected to a revival. This opera, first produced in 1821, is perhaps the ultimate word in heavy German Romanticism. It is a tale of love, of shooting, of dense, dismal forests, of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, satanic spells and supernatural apparitions, ghastly, eerie, gruesome, horrible. But its moral tone is pure and lovely...
...Evolution is false morally because it makes for selfishness and for the glorification of brute force. This problem of evolution is at the basis of the struggle between Modernists and Fundamentalists. Ever since the dark shadow of Darwinism came over the world, public morality has been progressing downward. The world must have a moral foundation and that foundation can only be found in religion. Take away religion and the whole moral structure falls. Today we have lost vital religion and therefore we have lost morality. Evolutionary philosophy is godless...
...Moral Breakdown Evident...
...moral breakdown has taken place over the whole social body. Moral and religious education has been practically banished from America. Although knowledge of mythological gods is required by many universities for graduation, no knowledge of the Christian God is demanded. Animal philosophy has even spread to the modern dance. It has become nothing but a hugging match. The old dancing of fifty years ago compares to modern dancing as milk does to hypochloric acid...