Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Religion. On the eve of the convention, the Detroit Board of Commerce sent a letter to Detroit church members. This letter urged that invitations to labor leaders to address congregations on the Sunday of the convention be withdrawn as inimical to local industries...
Recently, however, the President temporarily recovered his power of speech, and in an almost gossipy interview with Bruce Barton, widely known through his efforts to bring religion down to the intelligence of his public, gave his sentiments on numerous topics of modern conversation--but avoiding all mention of politics. The paprters, astounded that he who could not, did speak, objected strenuously. Where, they asked in righteous indignation, where was their friend, the Official Spokesman? And if he had been superseded, why were they not given a chance for a scoop...
...Lenin nicknamed him Stalin ("Steel") and he thereupon dropped his true surname Dzhugashvili. -Since the old Orthodox clergy imparted to their village flocks faith in the miraculous nature of lightning, the editors of Bezbozhnik have had to begin their refutation of religion with such elementals as attempts to demonstrate that lightning is merely an electrical phenomenon and not an indication that the Creator is vexed...
...Karl Marx The Soyuz Bezbozhnikoy (Union of the Godless) the principal society for the propagation of atheism, boasts 114,000 members, issues a weekly Bezbozhnik- (The Godless). Generally the old peasantry remain rooted in their faith. Their children are growing up with a doubtful and questioning attitude toward religion...
...Wherein Religion sensibly decays...