Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These people can no longer be called cvilized, but they do preserve certain relics of the old culture by still going through the outward manifestations of its religion. For instance they slit their ears with stone knives, worship idols, and burn incense in censers which are exactly the same as those unearthed in the ruins of the Ancient Mayan cities...
Priests Suppressed Religion...
Another noteworthy characteristic of Russ an education is that it is frankly altruistic. Lenin said that the most harmful influence among the human beings of the present age is the muddle of superstitions called religion. This sentiment is fully carried out in the Soviet instruction, which seeks completely to eradicate from the minds of the masses the religious feelings which still are lodged in them...
...Cooke has so often said, "I may be wrong." At least I do admit than I am sometimes wrong. For it was only last Saturday that I was converted to Methodism by a lady who did so want me to get the "good things" at Harvard. And any religion which will help toward a cheap and sudden attainment of the "Good things" is immediately mine. Though at heart I remain a Baptist on the hard shell a Vermont Baptist deo volente...
...intently were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which the bespangled audience?Anita Loos and Father Duffy, Al Jolson and His Honor the Mayor, and many another more or less notable who had paid $27.50 to be there? crowded out into the lobby to ogle one another...