Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bourgeoisie," roared Handsome Adolf, "do not seem to realize that Bol shevism is shaking the foundations of civilization. Victory for Bolshevism would mean the end of all ? including religion ? and a relapse into barbarism. If our movement were wiped out today Germany would be Bolshevist tomorrow...
...fact remains that he is a man of extraordinary talents and that he is, despite his present conservatism, not quite the type which usually receives official recognition. Once a satirist and a rebel, he has become a defender of a highly intellectual kind of authoritarianism in politics and religion as well as in literature, but he has achieved a solid fame without ever saying or writing anything which seems likely to be popular. He is the most conspicuous survivor among the group of young men who set out some ten or fifteen years ago to remake the literary tradition...
...unanimous votes the Senate and House of Mexico passed a law last week which was promptly denounced by the Most Reverend Pascual Diaz, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, as "an unheard of outrage of the public power against religion." The new law, unless vetoed by President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, will provide: 1) That no religious denomination shall have more than one clergyman per 50,000 population in either the Federal District of Mexico City (pop. 1,217,663) or the Territories of Lower California (pop. 94,469) and Quintana Roo (pop. 12,150). 2) That in the District and Territories...
...Religion & politics should not prevent the proper study of the abortion problem. ¶The $400 Federal income tax exemption for each child should be increased. The Government might thus help alleviate the burdens of parenthood, would remove an inducement to abortion. ¶ Women should be told that interference with pregnancy, even in its earliest stages, is not the harmless procedure they seem to consider it to be, but is a procedure inevitably associated with considerable risk to life and especially to future health...
...poor speaker. . . . Mr. Darrow's stock in trade . . . consists chiefly of attacks on an old system of theology. . . . His intelligence on religious matters was formed in the period of the conflict of religion and-science which was being waged more than a generation ago. . . . He cannot-or will not-meet the defender of religion on modern ground. He prefers to impute to his opponent a belief in hellfire, an infallible Bible, a Calvinistic monarchial God, and the most primitive conception of blood atonement. Naturally, it is more fun to slay this straw...