Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Sept. 13 under Religion you have given one of the best accounts and explanations of a religious group that I have ever read. As a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and of Arch Street Yearly Meeting (Philadelphia) I have frequently been distressed by the entire lack of understanding the Press and public seem to have of our organization...
...three hours a present carried in by a servant, such as a ring, box of chocolates, flowers, a book. Instead of an orgy, however, the big night when it finally comes now consists in listening to the Poet-Prince talk with vivid force and imagery about politics, poetry, religion and LOVE until about 7 the next morning, when his guest staggers off to her bed, finds the maid has packed everything for her departure...
Education. One bitter theme was Federal aid for local schools. South Carolina's Johnston: "We should be as jealous of individual liberty in education as we are of individual liberty in religion. . . . South Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education...
...Whether we like it or not, we Catholic teachers must realize that our courses in Religion are not being taught as they should be. They are frequently voted by the students to be 'the worst-taught courses in the curriculum.' We must teach fundamental dogmas rather than the frills and accidentals of Religion. . . . There is too much fluffy-ruffle stuff in pious books-entirely too much. I would like to take 90% of the spiritual books written and make a glorious bonfire of them, and their authors too, because they do not tell fundamental truths...
...feast day. Said he: "Now I carry a medal of the Little Flower with me and pray to her daily, but I am not sure I'd die for a novena to the Little Flower. There is too much Novena-itis, too many spiritual lollypops in presentday religion. I favor novenas, of course, but I do not believe that God is ultimately going to save us by numbers. If I am going to face a firing squad, I will die for something that means more to me than life itself. Hence, we must teach our young people rock-bottom...