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Eliot believes that there is only one way out of the waste land-and that is not the middle way. He believes that the Western nations must choose between a pagan society and a truly Christian society. By a Christian society he does not mean rule by the church, but a society that really lives by Christian principles, with what he calls the "Community of Christians" (a kind of spiritual elite) forming "the conscious mind and the conscience of the nation." In his play Murder in the Cathedral (1935), a dramatization of the murder of Archbishop Thomas å Becket...
...Perhaps they never asked Him. Perhaps they were not quite as pagan in their thinking as some of our finished products, who learned their religion in 'Catholic' parishes and schools that excluded Catholic Negroes...
...Thursday in November." Can't our reasons for thanks be chosen on a higher spiritual level before being put into the form of a Litany? And why must democracy and freedom always be equated with the ends of civilization and man? This can only be so in a pagan society. For the Christian religion, upon which Western civilization is, after all, based, these concepts must forever be means and not ends...
...been his party's unchallenged boss. He is credited with having driven three Presidents from office, two Conservatives and one Liberal. A reactionary Roman Catholic, he scourged the Vatican for signing a concordat with a Liberal government in 1942. In World War II he damned the U.S. as "pagan," plumped for the Axis until he saw that it was losing...
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