Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shocked beyond my meagre powers of expression was I at the picture (TIME, Oct. 26, Religion) of two children, American, praying to a Heavenly Father who they believe loves them with an infinite love...
...airmailing this from Mexico City to lose no time in congratulating Mrs. Blaisdell on her censorship of "religion" as an implement of education. Had the minds of Edison, Franklin, Burbank and thousands of other original thinkers been sufficiently crippled by belief in and reliance on "divine power" and "life after death," they would have passed to the limbo of unaccomplishment with the rest of the orthodox millions...
...take my religion straight and oldfashioned. But perhaps Mrs. Blaisdell (TIME, Oct. 26) by her white ribbon Prohibition of religion may be doing more good. Can't you see this "Blaisdell Act" producing bootleg worship? I can well imagine these children, who are to be so carefully shielded from any reference to a higher power, turning into every church they pass for a surreptitious prayer. Perhaps contraband worship is just what the churches need to make them full to overflowing with this intense younger generation. If this be true, I say more power to Mrs. Blaisdell...
Psychology is not necessarily inimical to religion, G. W. Allport '19, Assistant Professor of Psychology, declared in a speech at Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon. "Some of the roots of religion are found in the familiar psychological phenomena of suggestibility, fear mob psychology, and six. Knowledge of these roots of religion nourishes doubt and suspicion rather than faith and belief. Familiarity with these roots probably accounts for the fact that psychologists as a class are notoriously irreligious. Whereas 37 per cent of the physicists in Who's who are members of religious denominations, only 16 par cent of psychologists listed...
...same time a "priest baiter" as my opponent calls me, and a candidate for the anthropoid circles of Dayton, Tennessee. I am not a priest baiter but have the most profound respect for almost all forms of Christianity, or even, of "Religion," though I do not find it necessary to capitalize the last word at every turn like your anonymous correspondent, the inference being that his religion is true and holy, and all the others the sheerest bunk and rubbish. My doxy is all right, and your doxy is a bad 'un, as Carlyle was wont to remark...