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...author of The Counterfeiters, Les Caves du Vatican, Theseus, etc., one of the topflight literary figures of the 20th century. The official decree banning Gide's work did not give a reason, but the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano offered an interpretation: "He lived as a nonChristian, even as a deliberate antiChristian. The taste for profanity . . . was carried by him to blasphemy . . . His art had a feeling of his lasciviousness . . . The work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous seduction . . ." It was a great pity, said L'Osservatore...
...plan to raise $10,000,000 for a new university, with an international Christian faculty, which could pump some Christianity into Japanese education on a graduate as well as an undergraduate level. U.S. Protestants have so far raised more than $2,000,000; Japanese donors (95% of them nonChristian) have given...
...Superstition No. 2-the popular neglect of Western culture's Christian basis -he answers: "Public education . . . in trying to be nonsectarian, quickly became nonChristian, and so in total impact often anti-religious . . . The thinking of the Christian philosophers, being commonly uncredited to them, is diffused into general overtones, and so is neither rightly appreciated nor soundly criticized . . . It is as if the chemist were forbidden to include in his course outline any reference to the salts, or the botanist were required to be completely silent about conifers...
...Those (nonChristian Scientists) who buy a Traveler in which to wrap the Monitor...
...President of the Methodist Church of South Africa called the law "nonChristian" and said: "We believe that all peoples of God's family have an equal right in His sight." The Roman Catholic Apostolic Delegate in Natal said: "I can see nothing which can scripturally forbid mixed marriages." The Anglican Bishop of Natal denounced the law as "utterly stupid and completely unworkable...