Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to understand the attitude of the Princeton authorities, an attitude meriting no other name than intolerance. The custom of forced attendance at church is a gross anachronism. More significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...
Those responsible for Princeton's policy would do well to view the conditions prevailing at Harvard. There is no reason to believe the student-body here is a whit more godly than at Princeton. But it is patently obvious that Harvard's stand towards religion, as manifested in the relation it fosters between the students and the chapel, is far and away the more enlightened of the two. Daily attendance at chapel is small -- though it has grown appreciably in the last three years--, and even on Sundays, the proportion of men who attend church, as compared with those...
...Religion today is either on its deathbed, or still in the cradle. No longer is man satisfied with time-worn dogmas and creeds. If the challenge of a new era is to be met successfully, the primary requisite is a faith as positive as possible in the realm of the unknown Such a faith can be attained, and advanced, only by a society which feels a need for it. But to require a man, in the most skeptical stage of his life, to listen to backward doctrines is injurious in the extreme. He will seek to satisfy the needs religion...
...failing to educate our baseball players, so Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy is the price we pay for failing to educate our farmers' daughters. ... In all the world it would not be possible to find more naïve nonsense than the Mormon mythology. . . ." (The Profits of Religion) All this was most bewildering to that great mass of impressionable Midwestern settlers in Southern California.* Southern California is a bourgeois paradise. Few sections of the U. S. offer cheaper food and housing. It is the perfect setting for Utopia. And EPIC is nothing if not Utopian. In spite...
...Upton Sinclair, a fact which neither his enemies nor his friends have properly assayed. He is not a crackpot, but he is inordinately vain. He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because he was hurt. He is not an atheist; he is disgusted by commercialized religion. He is "not a "free-love"' cultist; he is an ascetic. His soft manners, his kindly eye, his intense, humorless and uncritical idealism, his obsession with the struggle of Labor and Capital for the fruits of Industry mark him for the archetype of old-fashioned Socialist. Yet the Socialists...