Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basic Question? The conservative Episcopal weekly, the Living Church, editorialized: "Are there any limits upon the right of a clergyman to engage in political action? Yes, we think there are; because his main duty is to teach the Christian religion . . . The basic question . . . is not freedom of speech . . . but the spiritual health and welfare of the congregation." The leftist Churchman fulminated against "the fear-ridden vestry." With a perfectly straight face, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship expressed its "amazement" and "shock...
...develop a muscular yarn about the effect of innocence and helplessness on man's wickedness. Three escaping bank bandits, in Technicolor, stumble across a woman in childbirth, stranded in a covered wagon during a sandstorm. The crooks, all 15-minute eggs, immediately begin quaking with spasms of oldtime religion, secondhand paternal pride and firsthand conscience. One of the godfathers (Harry Carey Jr.) dies from exhaustion and a slight wound he picked up in the robbery. Another (Pedro Armendariz) breaks a leg and has to shoot himself. That leaves John Wayne and Baby; Mother has been decently buried after...
...Wife: We haven't. My husband has just given up religion altogether...
...member of the United Brethren church ... I have one sister who is Christian Science, one who is Free Methodist, and I am Lutheran.' " When the interviewer asked how this worked out when they were together, she replied: " 'We have to leave off the subject of religion altogether ... I am sure we are not as close as sisters should...
...advent of children. Only a few instances of homes broken because of religious diversity were discovered through this study, but in numerous families the tension continued to be acute, even after twenty years of marriage." He adds: "It is abundantly clear that interfaith marriages have unfortunate results for organized religion...