Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks for presenting the other side of the picture for a change. Too often when an article on religion appears in any magazine (including TIME), a picture is painted of Protestantism as being hopelessly divided . . . while the Roman Catholic Church is usually presented as being one big, harmonious, happy family...
...peaceful. A U.S. woman missionary said "they came in, fired into the air and told Nationalist soldiers to lay down their arms. Civilians were told to go home-'walk, don't run.' " Commissars posted a bill of rights. One clause provided "freedom of thought and religion." Food was brought in and prices went down. Before the new policy was introduced, ton chang (the people's court) was dreaded by many middle-class Chinese. The Reds admitted regretfully that "in some places landlord and rich peasant elements were unnecessarily put to death." A month after Kaifeng...
...Hans Ackerhielm, assistant pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...
...inscription, seven feet long and nine feet high, concerns the old Zoroastrian religion and will take several months to translate. It is expected to shed new light on the Parthian and Sasanian Empire...
...Kenneth G. Neigh: "The level is far higher than when I graduated here in 1936." Last week, in other Chicago seminaries, officials agreed with Neigh. The men's wartime experience has much to do with this, but even more important is the growing conviction among Protestant seminarians that religion goes far beyond mere social service...