Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the second of a series of four broadcasts of classroom lectures by Dr. Wild and William E. Hocking, Alferd Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity...
...victory in Spain, or for France to feel there had been a clear-cut "Fascist" victory; that instead compromise-the traditional British virtue-must ultimately triumph in Spain, preferably by setting up a democracy under a constitutional monarch, with due respect for every man's property and religion...
Venerable Mother Soong therefore told General Chiang that if he would become a Christian he could marry her attractive, Wellesley-graduated Meiling. The Conqueror replied that he would not adopt a new religion merely to win a bride, but that if Miss Soong would marry him he would agree to study Christianity, and then do as he saw fit. No ordained Christian pastor could be found who thought General Chiang free to marry Miss Soong, so a lay Y.M.C.A. secretary united them in holy matrimony. From the day General Chiang thus took his No. 2 wife, both his character...
...primacy of religion. God. Ethical elements essential to religion. The Golden Rule. The capacity of human nature to grow and develop religiously. The sacredness of human life. The necessity of worship. The need for religious education. Social service programs...
...wish to call things by their true names. In Germany, in fact, there is religious persecution. . . . Rarely has there been persecution so grave, so terrible, so painful, so sad in its deep effects. . . . People say the Catholic religion is no longer the Catholic religion, but is politics, and this pretext is taken to justify a persecution. . . . This is the same accusation made against Jesus Christ when he was dragged before Pontius Pilate. . . . We can reply as Jesus Christ did . . . Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo [My kingdom is not of this world]. We are not in politics. We live...