Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yearnings of a Creator. Despite the fear of the warders (and in Marxist countries, because of this fear), Marxism persists. It offers far more than a critique of capitalism; in addition, its converts get the only fully developed materialist religion, complete with creed, church, directions for salvation, answers to every question, saints, doctors and devils...
...chair. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery under a flat stone. At the grave, Friedrich Engels said: "The greatest of living thinkers ceased to think. . . . He discovered the simple fact . . . that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion...
Blonde Elaine Stritch, who sings a wiggly "Bongo-bongo-bongo" in Broadway's Angel in the Wings and who is also a cousin of Chicago's Samuel Cardinal Stritch, explained to an interviewer why she doesn't consider the theater her "religion" as some actresses do. "It's nice to have something lasting about yourself," said she. "There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. But you know the show at St. Pat's won't close for a long time. . . . Democracy is lost...
Have statistics got anything to do with religion? Not much, concludes Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. U.S. Protestantism may not be losing ground numerically, but its religious vitality is slipping...
...other great failure of Protestantism, says Niebuhr, lies in its "inability to preserve the allegiance of the industrial workers of modern civilization. . . . Protestantism was the religion of the common man in the days of the American frontier. But as frontiersmen graduated into the middle class, the Protestant Church tended to move up one rung in the social ladder and to step down one rung from prophetic vitality to the complacency of the established order. Catholicism, on the other hand, has never lost sight of the social character of man's existence...