Word: paganization
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Said he: "Had the church succeeded in placing all nations on the heart of her people, we should never have been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to be imbued with more feeling of racial superiority and are guilty of more arrogant snobbery toward those of another color than any other people. The church has apparently not succeeded in inculcating humility in English-speaking whites...
...Roman faith lingered longest in the countryside. Hence the word pagan, from the Latin pagani (country people...
KENNETH J. PAGAN ist Lieutenant, U.S.M.C. Corpus Christi...
...Most staggering conversion was that of hitherto fiercely anti-Christian Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (whose pagan activities were condemned by the late Pope Pius XI). Nazidom's No. 1 heathen preached a stirring Christian sermon: "Never before have millions upon millions faced death as now. What is life? ... Is it a mirage, only existing in our minds? . . . Is it a theater in which we appear as puppets, playing dramas and comedies to amuse? We do not know whom: God or Satan? Two thousand years ago a miracle occurred and Christ gave us an answer. Even those who did not believe...
Most important in Kipling's later stories and poems is Kipling's "vision of the people of the soil. It is not a Christian vision, but it is at least a pagan vision-a contradiction of the materialistic view: it is the insight into a harmony with nature which must be re-established if the truly Christian imagination is to be recovered by Christians. What he is trying to convey is ... not a program of agrarian reform, but a point of view unintelligible to the industrialized mind." And profoundly vitalizing that point of view are Kipling...