Word: paganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pull Up Your Socks. The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and Judaism,* dedicated to stamping out polytheist religions, e.g., Buddhism and Hinduism, as pagan and "immoral...
After re-electing President Grey for his second one-year term, the Messengers discussed the problems of making new converts-especially in the North and West. The U.S. as a whole, said Dr. W. A. Criswell, pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, is "a vast, lost, pagan mission field." Out of 1,400,000 school children in New England, he reported, "1,100,000 of them are growing up without any religious instruction whatsoever. In the West the story is the same . . . This is a call to arms among our Southern Baptist people...
...fellow countrymen has not softened Blaster Lewis much. His newest book, Rotting Hill, is a volume of nine short stories-in which most of the stories are not stories at all. They are the polemics of an enraged preacher who is neither Labor nor Tory, Christian nor pagan, democrat nor aristocrat. Their aim is to tell
Last week, as another strenuous holiday season closed, two customs seemed marked for uprooting. Roman Catholic priests and lay organizations denounced the Christmas tree and Santa Claus as "pagan and Anglo-Saxon." The crèche and the Three Kings, they suggested, are more truly Latin. By & large, Mexican fathers, cracking under the strain of two gift days, backed the drive to cast out U.S.-style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown...
Chartres Cathedral, standing high above a windswept plain, 55 miles southwest of Paris, was built by farming folk. From the 4th Century, Chartres had been their spiritual center. When their Christian church, on the site of a Druid shrine, was destroyed by pagan Normans in 858, the people built a better one. Three times in the next three centuries, the church was swept by ruinous fires. Each time they made it more splendid than before...