Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But Benito was still a young man when he went to atheistic Lausanne (Switzerland) and debated with a Protestant clergyman the proposition: "God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease." Benito upheld the affirmative before a huge Socialist audience...
At middle age, Benito wrote a book: The Real John Huss. Huss was one of the first of the Reformation martyrs, and Benito praised him passionately. Benito was, at this point, a protestant but not a Protestant.
Remains, however, the practical consideration that a Protestant Church is always in danger of becoming like a country without heroes, or, at least, without local heroes such as may be found in Catholic parishes.
Bad Bishop Brown (TIME, June 9), found guilty of heresy by eight good P. E. bishops and true, at Cleveland, May 31, has appealed to a special Court of Review which will meet in October and of which Bishop William A. Leonard of Cleveland is President. The attorneys for the...
Thus, before he is thorough, this charming old villain may very well persuade the Protestant Episcopal Church to abandon heresy-trials, to protect itself from the uncongenial members by divorcing them from the Church on the much simpler grounds of incompatibility. So wisdom will be justified of its eccentric children...