Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while indicating John Davison Rockefeller Jr., as the actual source of cash. Since several Baptist weeklies are appearing unmolested in Russia, the tirade of last week against "Rockefeller Bibles" seemed pointless, hysteric. Nonetheless it formed one of two major features in a new Soviet campaign to stamp out Religion, a thing so detested by the late founder of the Soviet State, LENIN, that he caused to be displayed in Soviet churches for years the slogan : RELIGION is OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE The second feature of last week's new anti-religious campaign was to release a series of articles...
...Osborn gave the first heave. He declared Jolter Barnes's theological speech an unwarranted intrusion on a scientific body. "There is no conflict between science and religion. Some of the greatest men on science have been very religious." Dr. Joseph Mayer, head of the Tufts College sociology department, hastened to aver: "I disagree most emphatically with Mr. Barnes...
...appearance several years ago of a religious cult which incorporates into its system certain methods tending to arouse the emotions has called forth justified criticism. Labelled with the attractive slogan, "How to get real religion", its banner has inveighed many into an active participation. Then, as soon as these innocent volunteers have entered the intricate labyrinth, another's authority is sufficient to compost their personal surrender--their setions and duties, no longer in their own control, are said to be ordained by divine will...
When emotional religion is carried to so great an extent, it Borders dangerously upon the fanatical. Manifestations of Providence can too easily be misinterpreted in the light of human pleasure to be at all times a trust-worthy guide. To a college student, moreover, whose experiences are more or less apt to be limited, the camouflaged nature of the revival meetings present an attractive outlook; when, however, all his thoughts become interpretations of divine will, his mind can scarcely be receptive to the more tangible facts of education...
...later the Pope made Merry del Val a Cardinal and gave him the full secretary title. Thereafter for eleven years Merry del Val at the Vatican counselled, conferred, carried out the policies of the peasant Pius. He enunciated his Pope's vigorous disapproval of all modernistic tendencies, in religion and in society. He became a world figure...