Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strains at such gnats as "hell" and "damn" but is willing to swallow the camel of antireligion. The only trouble with religion in Russia is that the Russian constitution permits freedom of religion, but in the same breath guarantees freedom of antireligion. . . . Atheists should have no more freedom in the sale of their wares than dope peddlers, and for the same reason...
...Palestine, waited for the Messiah who was to lead them back. But by one of history's ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism that finally brought them back from the Diaspora. It was a new feeling of nationhood among a people united partly by religion (though among them were atheists), partly by race (though many bore no blood relation to the biblical tribesmen who were their "ancestors"), partly by tradition (though they included extreme political and social experimenters), but chiefly by fellow-suffering. Despite differences among them, they were all Jews to a world whose affection...
...Religion is not a commodity like canned milk or steel. . . but that is no reason why a religious program should not use . . . modern radio techniques to help the audience start thinking about spiritual things. . . .I have actual tangible proof that music not only soothes the sorrowing breast, but leads the non-Catholic to be more ready and willing to accept the Catholic message...
Newton's overall conclusion will surprise most churchmen. Said he: the future of religion is as bright in Russia as anywhere in the world. "Religiously, we should regard Russia as our great ally. It is a virgin field for freedom . . . because Russia never knew freedom of religion until the present regime. When the U.S.S.R. was first formed, religion was contraband, but now the Government has discovered that religion cannot be destroyed, so it has invited the church to come in the front door...
During the next ten years, the Maryknollers will concentrate hardest on Christianizing Japan. Because defeat discredited Buddhism and Shintoism, the Japanese are turning to Christianity, "the religion of the victors." But the Japanese have other reasons with which the Maryknoll missionaries sympathize and on which they intend to capitalize. Explained one of them last week: "The Japanese think now that the only real danger to their progress toward becoming a stable power is Communism, and they know that the Catholic Church is the implacable enemy of Communism...