Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have a belief in the Lord Jesus, the repentance of sin, and the what-shall-I-do-to-be-saved religion. That is the attitude of the real oldtime Southern fundamentalist." To many a liberal delegate the Cannon attitude seemed close to Catholicism, from which Bishop Cannon acknowledged having occasionally gained inspiration. Organizing the Buck Hill Falls conference was almost entirely the work of one young man, Stanley Horlund High, editor...
Thus last week Italy and the Papal State became independent friendly nations. In matters of religion it seemed, however, that they were at odds. Last week the Pope branded as heretical utterances of Italy's Prime Minister...
...Cornell insisted?one more cause of opposition in the "burnt-over district"* ?was that the university should be a place "where persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be eligible to attend." First-President White bore bravely into the teeth of booming gales of religion as well as pedantry to bring to Ithaca such outside figures as James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, George William Curtis, Bayard Taylor, Theodore William Dwight, Goldwin Smith, as lecturers...
...must, said he, be "clearly and loyally understood that the Catholic religion and the Catholic religion alone is the State religion . . . not merely one of the many tolerated or permitted religions. . . . The Fascist State, both where doctrine and ideas are concerned [should] refuse to admit anything which is not in agreement with Catholic doctrine and Catholic action. For without these the Catholic State could not exist...
Decidedly not in "agreement with Catholic doctrine" had been the Mussolini statement that "the Catholic religion was born in Palestine but became Catholic in Rome. If it had remained in Palestine it would probably have been one of the many sects which nourish in that heated atmosphere like the essence of therapeutics, and it would have nickered out without leaving a trace...