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...suppose that a hundred years from now, a Chinese student whose cultural ground was five generations of dialectical materialism were asked to give a rendering of the Apocalypse of St. John. Suppose that such a person knew next to nothing about the Christian eschatological belief, had never met a priest, thought all visions were delusions and had never used a metaphor in his life. Such a man would have difficulty with such a text; and we have the same kind of difficulties with primitive...
...Every Man a King" to build a kind of populist police state in Louisiana. Long was already threatening to run for President when he was shot down in the late summer of 1935 by a man whose family he had ruined. Almost equally malign was a Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Coughlin, whose ardent and often anti-Semitic broadcasts from his Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich., brought him a vast following (he regularly received 80,000 letters a week). To overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest joined forces with Dr. Townsend...
...photograph with the caption ". . . stunned worshipers listen to priest's words of comfort" is a graphic interpretation of Marx's thought that "religion is the opium of the people." Roy D. Baker Truckee, Calif...
...should therefore conclude the book to be full of lies. Apparently Mr. Cohen still views the Church as a bunch of sinister wizards plotting to take over the world from the Vatican, a view which even most Protestant fundamentalists no longer hold. The message is that anything a priest says is automatically false. If this is not pre-judging, I don't know what...
Today on Ikitsuki, the center of the Kakure population, there are 80 house churches with their closet god. At such public ceremonies as Kakure funerals, a Buddhist priest is always asked to officiate, but, says one of them, "these people make sure to give a prayer in secret to erase the effect of ours." The sect's leader, the Ojisama (Revered Uncle), conducts a baptism-like ceremony with water drawn from a site of 17th century martyrdom...