Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily. Nowhere is there a radio, a telephone or a newspaper; the Island's ancient Oceanic Hotel, built in 1873 by mustard tycoon John R. Poor (a Unitarian), has no running water, no baths. Said Congregationalist "Shoaler" Donald A. Adams: "You have nothing else to think about except religion...
...Northrop, has had a philosophical basis (a theory of the nature of man and what is good for him). Setting out to prove it in 435 pages of closely reasoned analyses of the histories of Mexico, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Russia and the Orient, Professor Northrop concentrates on science, religion and art, but ranges all over the cultural map. One of his basic theses is that the present forms of all Western cultures belong to the past because the assumptions behind them no longer square with scientific and hence philosophical truth. Indeed, they never did; Northrop says that the last...
This week's issue of the Methodist Zions Herald applauded: "The FCC has done a profound service to freedom of religion. . . . One of the basic rights that must not be disturbed is the right to achieve for oneself a satisfactory conception of God. To safeguard that right, the church must recognize and defend the right of an individual to disbelieve either in partner completely...
...blame on any one or any thing for this predicament is either impossible or difficult. You might find fault with Hindustan climatology, and carefully show the effects of the monsoon rain on the caloric intake of the Bengali peasant; there is some relation. Or you might find the Hindu religion, totalling 65 percent of the population, a hindrance to progress in its rigid caste definitions. Then, there are always the British, for it was through their policy of laissez-faire that little or no social advancement was achieved in India--or in any of their other colonies. But whatever...
...Does the Roman Catholic Church ever tolerate other religions? '. . . Pope Leo XIII explained this point tersely when . . . he wrote: "The Church indeed deems it unlawful to place the various forms of divine worship on the same footing . . . but does not on that account condemn those rulers who, for the sake of securing some great good or of hindering some great evil patiently allow custom or usage to be a kind of sanction for each form of religion having its place in the state...