Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since 313 A.D., when Constantine the Great opened the way for Christianity to become a state religion, men have argued about the line between the things of Caesar and the things of God. This week the relations between church & state stirred several different kinds of Christians in several different ways...
Written shortly before his death, when Dreiser had forsaken institutionalized religion for a Communist party membership card, the thorough and obviously sympathetic discussion of Berenice's training in Yogi lore reveals that Dreiser has finally found solutions to problems long troubling him. Always religious in nature and temperament, Dreiser devoted a good deal of his life to a search for earthly realization of the values of Christ. Rejecting Church dogma as sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious...
...British exploited and perpetuated the medieval illiteracy and intense poverty of our masses, by stifling all industrial and educational development to the unavoidable minimum. Rigidly enforced legislative measures magnified petty local differences to a vast national scale, where Hindus and Moslems secured desperately needed government jobs mainly on a religion basis, till in the ensuing bitterness and frustration a power maniac like Jinnah could suddenly leap out of the shadows and, screaming wildly, lead hundreds of thousands over the chasm's edge. . . . We have made our mistakes, but history will record that a great portion of the guilt lies...
Molotov said: "It is a known fact that a sort of new religion has gripped the expansionist circles of the United States. Having no-faith in their internal strength, they put their faith in the secret of the atom bomb, even though it has long since ceased to be a secret...
...greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed and applauded like a congregation of Follies girls at a Mainbocher private showing" when they receiver a doorman's uniform for their furs. The mountain men fought better than the Indians, hysterical missionaries broke down their religion, and civilized diseases destroyed their bodies...