Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision also declared the law contrary "to the fundamental principles of Christianity." This point might become the basis for attacks on other states' laws. The Roman Catholic Church had helped to carry through the legal test, on the grounds that the law abridged the freedom of religion, thus violated the Federal Constitution...
Moslems are also forbidden by their religion to drink alcohol. Last week the West Punjab provincial government decreed complete prohibition for all Moslems. Non-Moslems can be exempted by applying for a special drinking permit costing 5 rupees a year. A loophole in the law makes the drinking permits available to those Moslems who can present doctors' certificates saying that they are "alcohol addicts...
...religion must criss-cross over morality, State and Church both abhor and forbid murder, bigamy, and swindling; this is a natural, not a sinister, connection...
...with them. The Church does not attempt to "force" the state to carry out its will; it merely attacks the proposed amendment. It is up to the voters to tell the state what they want. And are the voters in considering, the issue, "not . . . to argue it on a religions level," as the CRIMSON says? Is religion illegitimate...
...overwhelming majority of Stepinac alumni will, of course, remain laymen. But through their adolescent years they will have had the most thorough religious instruction their thoroughgoing church can provide. In a ninth-grade religion class last week, Father Joseph Sum reminded his young hearers: "At the end of the world our bodies will be reunited with our souls and either enjoy the beatific vision of Heaven or suffer the tortures of Hell." He led a careful discussion on the moral issues of the purpose of life...