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...revolution and its all-important industrialization through vast suffering-suffering that can most easily be justified to the Chinese people by keeping them in terror of an "imperialist attack." And where Russia, with its vast industrial complexes, is highly vulnerable to nuclear war, Red China's leaders profess to believe that "after the next war, there will be 20 million Americans, 5,000,000 Englishmen, 50 million Russians, and 300 million Chinese...
Myriad Laws. Even marrying a young man as Europeanized as herself has its drawbacks. Many African men profess to be Christians, but enjoy the best of two worlds by having one church wife and several tribal ones. Under Uganda law such bigamy is punishable by five years in jail, but the law is rarely applied. Said a social worker: "If it were, the entire African aristocracy would be in prison...
...come now. With religion tipping the balance in the coming presidential election, how could you neglect mention of Pat Nixon's persuasion in an otherwise very good article [Feb. 29]? In what religion was she baptized and what religion does she and her family now profess...
...church must maintain its right and duty to advise laymen on how to vote in elections, and those who profess or defend Communistic, materialistic or anti-Christian principles may not be married in a religious ceremony (which means not being married at all in the eyes of the church) or serve as godparents in baptisms and confirmations. Laymen may not attend non-Catholic church services or argue religion in public with non-Catholics...
...fact must be stated plainly that the overwhelming majority of Harvard students who possess "the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment," in President Pusey's Baccalaureate phrase--and who profess a belief in what that word signifies--do so in a sense that is far removed from both the letter and the spirit of anything to be found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or the Hellenic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle of causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself...