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Communism v. Naziism. To equate Soviet Russia with Nazi Germany is a dangerous oversimplification. They seem to me essentially different, in several ways: 1) ideologically, Communism is a Christian heresy, but Naziism was anti-Christian paganism; 2) hence, in practice, though there has been much cruelty in Russia, there is...
The roots of the trouble are not in colonial oppression (in modern Nigeria, there is none) but in the casual lumping together of conservative Northern Moslems with precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live...
Mary Magdalene, writes Bruckberger, symbolized the Christian baptism of Greek philosophy. The sensual paganism of the Greeks, he contends, was really "a deep homesickness for the first Paradise, for its innocence, for its freedom of behavior." The search for wisdom was one expression of this. Magdalene, the sinner, made the...
Finally, the new Professor should not try to link the Brooks House closer to student religious groups around the Square. Students who choose the spend in PBH the time they could devote to church youth groups do so not necessarily because they are steeped in paganism, but because social service...
Quo Vadis. Christianity v. paganism in Nero's Rome, in the costliest ($6,500,000) movie ever made; with 30,000 extras, 63 lions, Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr (TIME, Nov. 19).