Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned.* Almost half of them kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right to refuse to incurables the pity which they demand...
Comrade Rykov had announced a bill permitting freedom of religious worship in fanatically anti-religious Communist Russia (TIME, May 27). Even though the bill was offered not as an aid to religion, but as a more subtle means of combating it, Dictator Stalin was vexed...
Says Lippmann: "What most distinguishes the generation who have approached maturity since the debacle of idealism at the end of the War is not their rebellion against the religion and moral code of their parents, but their disillusionment with their own rebellion. It is common for young men and women to rebel, but that they should rebel sadly and with out faith in their own rebellion, that they should distrust the new freedom no less than the old certainties-that is something of a novelty...
...Preface to Morals he analyzes that debacle in religion, in politics, art. He demonstrates that the humanism of the disillusioned sages tallies with modern psychology; he predicates the elastic sort of humanism that will fit a changing...
Henry Ford dilated on diet and divines, in the June Red Book magazine out last week. Said he: "Instead of cluttering up religion with a lot of things that do not belong to it, why doesn't the clergy teach people how to eat? ... The desire to drink is a false appetite . . . created in the first place, not by liquor, but by wrong combinations of food. . . . Part of the lesson toward physical fitness was the elimination of meat on Friday. The clergy developed that. Let it go ahead and finish...