Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards to the article on Religion (TIME, Dec. 25). I have a few words to say on this person so-called leader and other words calling himself God. Father Divine. I have been married to my wife for 20 years happily as a poor person could be I have a daughter 19 years, in high school. W. Broadway, and 193rd or 96th St. and can't recall which one. and this particular person has almost broke up my home, telling my wife he is God and she will live always and never die. she turned in her insurance with...
...parties to such persecution. They can show that by their help and aid when it is asked in the next few weeks or next few months. Non-Jews have a responsibility in this matter that they cannot shirk without betraying the very principles of the ethics and religion of which they boast...
...enough to make further contribution-seeking unnecessary. When Mr. Hayden had got his feelings under control, he explained his benefaction thus: "It has been said many times that science has a tendency to make one less religious. With this thought I radically disagree. I do not consider that religion is measured by the number of times a person goes to church. I think true religion is based on the principle that one believes there is a much greater Power in the universe than the human being on earth. ... I hope that the planetarium when completed will give many people that...
...Faith in God may be a thoroughly scientific attitude, even though we may be unable to establish the correctness of our belief. Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as his children. Not that science in any way shows such a relationship . . . but the evidence for an intelligent power working in the world which science offers does make such a postulate plausible...
...smallest known units of matter and light, only to discover that their movements are unpredictable. This "complexity of small-scale events," leads Dr. Compton toward resolving the dilemma of freedom v. law, which is "as essential to the welfare of science as it is to the growth of religion." If a little photon of light can move capriciously, so can man by exercise of will. Thus Dr. Compton sees "the whole great drama of evolution as moving toward the goal of personality, the making of persons, with free, intelligent wills, capable of learning nature's laws, of glimpsing...