Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steppingstones. "If religion is a chariot, it looks as if the wheels on which it mounts towards Heaven may be the periodic downfalls of civilization on Earth. It looks as if the movement of civilization may be cyclic and recurrent, while the movement of religion may be on a single continuous upward line. The continuous upward movement of religion may be served and prompted by the cyclic movement of civilizations round the cycle of birth-death-birth...
When civilizations are flourishing, historians have noted, religion is generally at a low ebb; when civilizations disintegrate, religion thrives. Does this mean that religion is a fatal parasite on civilization? Yes, suggested 18th Century Historian Edward Gibbon.* No, says Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: on the contrary, civilizations are merely steppingstones in the progress of religion...
...whole crew look unwholesome, joyless, depressed-and even sinister. ... I now know why the political articles are always cynical, the education column senseless gibberish, the religion column gloomy rubbish, devoid of inspiration, hope or spiritual benefit...
...picture of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr on the cover, and the article with it are among the best summaries on both a man and a philosophy of religion, as well as a philosophy of an Age, that I have ever read. A really superb...
...algebraic equations. Vag lay down on the grass, opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years. Its basis was in religion-fundamentalism and in the teachings of a Bessarabian mystic of the eleventh century. Vag read on eagerly...