Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formalized religion is not part of Flanner House, but religious groups share its work. Before the city's Community Fund took over financing, the Disciples of Christ contributed time and money. The United Christian Missionary Society helped. The American Friends gave $8,000 this year, hope in 1946 to give $26,000. Said one of them: "If Friends live up to their principles there is no line of race to them. All men are brothers. Planner House offers a valuable opportunity for Friends to demonstrate the thing they claim to believe." To which Dr. Robert M. Hopkins, president...
...Mother," cried her daughter. "Now it is you who are forgetting that we are all that is left of civilization. You are beginning to talk religion...
...Communist, Socialist, and Progressive Democrat parties, which make up a strong sector of the democratic united front against Peron, would take religion out of both school and state, permit divorce...
...escape mechanism. I have on file now 115 sets of elaborate resolutions. Certain bodies meet, deliberate, announce that they have come to such-and-such a conclusion, then they sit back on their oars and do nothing more. What we need is enlightened, imaginative and even revolutionary leadership in religion today...
...course the bomb was only the coup de grace) was that so many people knew what was wrong, but nobody could really do anything about it. Whatever words William Orton may use to charm the dense skepticism of his century, he is merely saying that liberalism divorced from religion becomes (in philosophy) a sterile materialism, in politics tyranny. He is explaining the genesis of a type that was common in pre-atomic civilization-the liberal who had become a revolutionist without realizing that he had ceased to be a liberal. He is explaining how one great category of liberal minds...