Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Primitive men hold large meetings for one of three reasons: war, politics or religion. It is only recently that Modern Business Men have taken to holding large meetings. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce, which had its annual convention last week, is only 16 years old. But the reasons that business men hold large meetings are still reasons of war, politics, and ethics substituted for religion...
...peculiarly true of human nature that "the more it changes, the more it's the same thing." Men used to call upon religion to support any system that was to their advantage. They had divine revelations about the place of women in society, the privileges of kings and upper classes, and so forth. But during the nineteenth century, in the Occident, the prestige of theology waned, while that of science increased. So now all the old prejudices are being refitted with imitation "scientific" bases. Some of them can still be kept up, although they are dangerously wabbly. Some are rather...
...individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith. These things are hidden until some man or some people is touched beyond all this by divine fire, and the result is one of those great revivals of religion which repeatedly through the centuries have startled the world and stimulated mankind and which, as sure as we are meeting in this room, will recur again...
...this day Hungarian nursery maids frighten their charges into "being good" with the dread name of onetime Dictator Kun. One still hears at Budapest whispers of the unspeakable propaganda methods by which Kun sought to break down the sanctity of religion, patriotism and morality in Hungary, to make way for Communism. For example, he caused to be exhibited to children in the public schools a cinema depicting persons of opposite sex in promiscuous conjunction. Other and more violent phases of the "Red Terror" gave Hungarians such a sickening belly-full of Communism that they overthrew the Kun regime...
...Education and Religion in Soviet Russia," Professor Karpovich, Sever...