Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Can you imagine the furor if a group of Roman Catholic bishops should subject a Protestant candidate to a formal questioning of matters concerning his faith! The howl would be heard from Washington to Rome.
The predominantly Protestant South is still the heartland of anti-Catholic attitudes. In 1928, the last year when religion was a big national political issue, Quaker Herbert Hoover soundly defeated Al Smith, a Catholic, by more than 6,000,000 votes, and seven states (Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee...
Thus, since 58% of all U.S. Catholics are Democrats (see chart), a Republican Catholic candidate might lure one out of every seven Democratic voters to his cause. Unsurprisingly, nearly all Catholics (95%) said they would vote for a candidate who shared their politics as well as their religion. The insignificant...
In the memory of many of its "old boys," who have gone on to all sorts of success in life, Connecticut's Kent School still looms as New England's closest approach to a Tibetan lamasery. For years the one entrance to Kent from town was a narrow...
Do not try to convert Jews, said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to Christian evangelists (TIME, April 21, 1958). Jews may find God more readily in their own faith than in Christianity, he maintains, especially because of the guilt they are likely to feel if they become Christians. Since when, replies...