Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruelty, or pillage. Too often people are prone to see only the gallantry of the Conquistador, without realizing the wreckage he brought upon the beautiful city of Mexico, surrounded by a broad lake filled with floating gardens and stocked with the glorious achievements of Indian art. If the Aztec religion demanded the palpitating hearts of its victims to appease the fury of the Gods, none can say that the Spanish Inquisition was more lenient...
...layman in the working-class distriets. He took up the trade of carpenter but at the beginning of the warturned his interest to the pacifistic movement. He is a widely-known speaker, a man of extermely liberal doctrines. The talk to the Liberal Club will be entitled. "The Religion of the Free...
...COSMIC RELIGION-Albert Einstein- Covici, Friede...
Einstein takes Science religiously, thinks only heretics are capable of the highest religious experience. Morals, he says, require "no support from religion. Man's plight would, indeed, be sad if he had to be kept in order through fear of punishment and hope of rewards after death." Few men have a better right than Einstein to fear and dislike the Press. He calls it a "distorting mirror," hopes radio will be a better international language. Everybody knows Einstein is a Zionist, but perhaps not so many realize he is a militant pacifist. Of Fire-eater Hitler he takes...
...excess of that quality. Cambridge and Boston are chock full of churches. What's the use of building a church where nobody wants to go? A building with some athletic object, an infirmary for the martyrs of sport, would be laudable. But a church? Who goes to church? Religion is played out. So the infants bleat, trying to make somebody think that they are hard-boiled, world-weary, "pagan...