Word: paganism
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...Paganism, streamlined and arrogant, has reconquered more of Europe than it has held for a thousand years. Yet even among Christians, few people think of World War II as a religious war-Europe's greatest since the Franks beat back the Saracens at Tours. This oversight and the pagan success has a common cause. What it is can be found out by reading Darwin, Marx, Wagner, a 420-page study of dominant ideas and intellectual climate of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries by Columbia University's Assistant Professor of History Jacques Martin Barzun...
With the assistance of dubbed-in shots of battle scenes, war planes, sea fights, etc., M.G.M.'s narrator offers an assortment of Nostradamus' predictions about the present war. One reads: "In Germany a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times. Roman power shall be completely abased, a great neighbor imitates his footsteps." That supposedly forecasts the rise of Hitler and Mussolini...
...After 25 days at sea they had the bare rudiments of navigation, gunnery, communications and seamanship, had also learned how to scrub their clothes white, how to face aft when they came over the side and salute the quarterdeck (where in early navies the ships carried their shrines and pagan altars). Rest of the education is being provided this winter and spring in three-month classes at Annapolis, Northwestern University and on the hulk of the old battleship Illinois, now the Prairie State, tied up in the Hudson at the foot of Manhattan's 136th Street...
...write a book about China must be a great man. And besides, Lin Yutang had once gone to Harvard for a while, which would have made him a great man even if he hadn't written lots of books. Once he had heard somewhere that Dr. Lin was a pagan and represented the Young China movement. While Vag didn't go to church regularly he had never seen a pagan in the flesh and he thought that this might be a good chance. As for that matter he didn't even know that there was an Old China Movement...
...October 1920 the Rev. J. A. L. Singh, an Anglican missionary, was hunting among the pagan jungle tribes of northwest India. At a remote village he heard of a "man-ghost" who lived seven miles away under an old ant hill. Wary of tigers, Singh built a blind near the ant hill, settled down at dusk to watch...