Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BRIDE OF THE LAMB?Alice Brady giving what many consider the finest performance of the season in a harrowing discussion of sex and religion...
...there no joy, no greatness in living? Is it the fear of hell that makes us good? If this theory is part of your Christian religion, then damn your Christian religion...
Surely, God would laugh at a man who talked like that. "Damn your Christian religion." That was a bad word. A man had no business in a parlor, let alone a church, if he talked like that. God might strike a great man dead, but he would never waste his lightning on a man who had no manners...
...parallel with the burly coward who terrorizes an alley, a block, a school or a town is well-nigh perfect. Mr. Lewis thought he was annihilating religion by his defiance of the Deity to strike him dead. He was, in fact, giving an amazing exhibition of bad taste, insulting and shocking to every religious mind...
...Spanish priests, after the conquest of the country in the sixteenth century, did all they could to stamp out the old religion and in a large measure succeeded. Down through the entire Yucatan the old cults have ceased to exist, but in the brush of Guatemala a few traces of them have survived the Eurobeen encroachments of the last four centuries...