Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Religion," said Marx, "is the opium of the people"-and he certainly never expected it to become part of the political pharmacopoeia of the first Marxist state. Yet Stalin's Russia has made good use of the once-banned Orthodox Church in Europe and the Middle East, and recently appeared as the defender of the faith in China as well...
...Emperor had chosen "Meiji setsu" -birthday of the Emperor Meiji, who made Japan a modern power and Shinto a war-inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
...speak anxiously of defining more clearly our diplomatic foreign policy abroad. How about a clear self-definition, through intelligent study, of our own policies on religion...
Death of a Promise. Jan Smuts's appearance at U.N. recalled that in 1919, as head of a mandates committee, he had implored the Paris Peace Conference to "demonstrate that world . . . opinion is in favor of the ultimate self-government of all peoples, without distinction as to race, religion or color...
...that both parties to a mixed marriage sign a document .in which they promise that "all the children, of both sexes, who may be born of our Marriage, shall be baptized in the Catholic Church, and shall be carefully brought up in the knowledge and practice of the Catholic Religion." Said York: "I feel it necessary to warn Anglicans against signing this document, and to ask them to do their utmost to dissuade members of our Church from doing so. It means that Anglican fathers or mothers married to Roman Catholics are deprived of the right to influence the spiritual...