Word: paganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dime For the laws of libel And in his spare time Translated the Bible. Quick to disparage All arts but learning, Jerome liked marriage Better than burning But didn't like woman's Painted cheeks; Didn't like Romans, Didn't like Greeks, Hated Pagans For their Pagan ways, Yet doted on Cicero all his days...
...over half are pure-blooded Indians; 38% mixed Indian-and-white, called Ladinos; the rest white. Nearly two-thirds are illiterate, and more than half of the illiterates do not even speak Spanish, using Indian dialects instead; 64% go barefoot. Nominally Roman Catholic, the Indians celebrate Christian festivals with pagan gusto, consult witch doctors oftener than the country's scant 200 priests. Guatemala City, the capital, is the only sizable city, with 293,000 residents; Quezaltenango, runner...
Speaking to some 6,000 Methodist women in Milwaukee, outspoken Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam let fly at "self-appointed patriots . . . pagan commentators . . . ignoramuses on investigating committees." Said he: "We don't intend to give up such words as 'peace, justice and brotherhood' " just because the Commies have appropriated them. "Little men whose mentality is . . . akin to the Nazi Gauleiter and the Russian commissar . . . think they are hearing something subversive when Christians speak...
...pressures of city life. Today, this means exposure to slums and subways, to politics, raucousness and muggers, as well as to lectures on theology. Union, explains Dean of Students Bill Webber, wants its students to be shocked into asking: "What can the Gospel have to say to this incredibly pagan city?" And then it wants them to sit down and figure out the answer...
When Harvard was an infant, its religious critics called it "intolerant"; in its youth they termed it "liberal." When it achieved manhood its nickname became "Unitarian." But middle life and recent history have made "pagan," and "Episcopal and Jewish run" more appropriate...