Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lutheran service and doctrine. I, as a layman bedridden for six years, with ten ribs removed under local anaesthesia to collapse the right lung and close to the end on several occasions, wish to inform Dr. Fosdick that the confessional has ALWAYS been a part of the LUTHERAN religion, but entirely voluntary. I inclose a clipping from the Lutheran Witness...
When a wise man speaks one sentence in a thousand is meat for hungry newsgatherers. Last week, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, eminent Baptist divine,* spoke at length in the Town Hall, Manhattan, on "Religion and the Modern Mind," landed in newspaper headlines with two sentences on the Virgin Mary...
...will be a queer trial. Judge Fred Raymond is a Protestant. Mr. Reed was born a Presbyterian and is a candidate for President. Mr. Ford, idealist, pacifist and manufacturing moralist, keeps his religion an enigma. William H. Gallagher, attorney for Attorney Sapiro, is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sapiro, onetime orphanage waif and newsboy, once studied to be a rabbi...
...Heaven-Tappers are a lot of crooks who draw money from Virginia moonshiners in return for synthetic religion. Their scheme: to invade the domains of the desperate distillers bearing with them the priestly emoluments of a fantastic religious cult; there to prattle assorted mysticisms garnered from better established sects; to work the mountaineers into a frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover...
Early Christian architecture was a product of the need and the environment. The disintegration of the Roman empire was accompanied by a weakening of classical prestige, while a young and vigorous religion was working out its own ideals and standards...