Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Davies (who objects to orthodox Christianity and especially the Apostles' Creed as inadequate): "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
...Religion," said Marx, "is the opium of the people"-and he certainly never expected it to become part of the political pharmacopoeia of the first Marxist state. Yet Stalin's Russia has made good use of the once-banned Orthodox Church in Europe and the Middle East, and recently appeared as the defender of the faith in China as well...
...Communist press of Russia and China cheered, the Soviet consul general in Shanghai rescued from a Chinese jail an Orthodox archbishop who once fought with the Czarist armies, but was absolved last fall when he became a Soviet citizen and declared allegiance to Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, who follows the Kremlin political line. The Chinese who had arrested Archbishop Victor had accused him of helping the Japs. So did some of the anti-Soviet followers of Victor's Shanghai rival, Archbishop John of the Orthodox Church in Exile...
...live down here in Texas and our bees are so big we use 'em for primary trainers at Randolph Field. But sting a man four times? Don't let Sam feed you that! They only sting once, in the orthodox manner, and then quietly...
...travelers agreed about the Soviet Government's plans for the Russian Orthodox churches in western Europe. "At dinner Mr. Karpov and his assistant made quite clear to us that we have been invited to the Soviet Union to see for ourselves that the Church was being allowed to function in Russia, in order that on our return to western Europe we could spread the glad tidings to our flocks. Also we found much interest in those Orthodox dioceses still under the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople. We were asked on our return to Berlin...