Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MISCELLANY is good, RELIGION mediocre, BOOKS tolerable, NATIONAL AFFAIRS great, but I wouldn't take your TIME to prepare for eternity...
Justly, His Holiness was perturbed. From the thin Papal lips came a rebuke austere and measured: "The principles of the Fascist party are being enforced and interpreted in many cases by men who, under new names and new banners, remain enemies to the state and to religion...
Thus wrote recently, in Toronto one Ernest V. Steiry, editor of newly established atheist weekly Christian Inquirer. Last week he was arrested, charged with "blasphemous, indecent and profane libel of and concerning the holy scriptures and the Christian religion." In vain he pleaded: "I was not writing of the Christian God but the God' of the Jews...
Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...
...Mystic Knight", 1000 dollars as a "Foundation Member". The general manager for this twentieth century scale of indulgences is one Edward Clarke, who has already earned a sum running into six figures by commissions off the sale of memberships to the Ku Klux Klan. Such a man finds that religion and patriotism...