Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naked. No doubt as the good steamship Mindoro cleft azure wavelets, Mr. Thompson occasionally thought of the political situation in this southern section. He knew, of course, that these southern islands contain overwhelmingly Moro, Mohammedan, polygamous and warlike inhabitants who will not pay taxes as it is against their religion. Nor will these Moros ever forgive the Filipinos for forcing their children to go to school where they learn such bad habits as keeping their teeth white instead of black like their parents. Likewise, the Moros dislike both the Filipino and U. S. regimes but of the two prefer...
...Shillito is religion's outstanding British journalist, the U. S. Christian Century's English correspondent, a regular contributor to the London Times. None knew better than he how busy the "international road," the press, is kept by the pagan deities in question. None knew better how Venus, having maddened or blessed some hot Italian poet, some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with...
...There was the Bishop of Winchester, warning solemnly that warlike mechanisms may overpower man's morality, asking the Church to create a "new human race." There was Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, eloquent and diplomatic, who praised the Swiss for their peaceful history, the placidity of their religion, their tolerance of all creeds. Upon the resignation of Dr. Brown as one of the Conference's four presidents, the delegates elected Dr. Cadman in his stead...
...made a startling pronouncement on religion: "The prevailing Christian conceptions of heaven and hell have hardly more influence with educated people these days than Olympus and Hades have...
...knew the Brahmanic conception of an indelible hereditary stain resting upon definite groups of men. And, of course, they could ask him to tell them of literature. Who better than Gandhi knew Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy? Or the science of government? Gandhi knew well Britain's jails. Then religion- how the Mahatma's deep oriental mysticism had swayed India! But which religion should he be asked to expound? Hinduism? Buddhism? Mohammedanism ? Back trooped the brown-skinned pupils and delivered their choice. Forthwith last week Mahatma Gandhi, austere ascetic, Tolstoy disciple, famed Indian politico-spiritual leader, began to teach...