Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town." Instead of a "Profile" (New Yorker) the New Orleanian presented a biographical sketch called a "Closeup." First subject: Rabbi Louis Binstock, past president of the Rotary Club, but "Rabbi, not Babbitt," "most popular purveyor of religion in New Orleans," whose Friday-night talks on books and such are "the nearest approach to culture this city boasts...
...humanism here would be impertinent. Whoever takes his course may see for himself, if he likes. Suffice it to say that Mr. Babbitt is a preacher of proportion and the golden mean. Like the ancient Greeks, he takes as his motto: "Nothing too much". All external standards, such as religion, he throws overboard, and appeals to the wisdom of human experience as the only rule to order life. He shuns as the plague all the emotional ecstasies that break down the rigid self-discipline which is his prescription for all humanity...
...remaining members of the Board of Preachers are the Rev. Charles E. Park, the Rev. Frederick May Eliot, the Rev. Philemon F. Sturges, the Rev. John R. P. Sclater, and President Clarence A. Barbour of Brown University. The Rev. Thomas J. Harris is Adviser in Religion and Archibald T. Davison is the organist and choirmaster...
...Religion...
...determined to stamp out the agents of the foreign power who are destroying our industry and corrupting our youth. . . . They came here and held meetings in which they mocked God and parodied religion in a most brutal way. We are determined to stop this...