Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-American. The Pilgrims drafted the charter of the new settlement with the Bible their only guide, and it was devotion to God Almighty that brought them to these shores and sustained them. America is unique in the history of the world in that it is founded on religion...
...Political philosophers have shown that no political or social movements have ever succeeded in the history of mankind that have not been based on religion", he continued...
...only have all our states been founded on a religious motive, but since the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, every crisis in our country has been met with religion. Religion is indispensible, for it is the only possible safeguard for the continuance of our national order. There must be something above all to which all can appeal and from which all may receive equal judgment, and this alone can be religion...
...ever changing, and contended there fore, that any change in the existing state of affairs might be condemned as undermining the social structure of the country. "It is our habits, circumstances; personal fixations acquired in childhood that motivate us in any particular crisis in this world," he said, "not religion or anything related...
Professor Givler held that criticism of religion was simply a characteristic of this generation to investigate and to get at the root of all things. "Every atheist should be made a saint by the church for the healthy criticism he has given it", he said. Closing his arguments with an ode to Harvard, he pointed out that the University is "agnostic", yet a "saint" and a "sage...