Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill of Rights may be aged but its vigor is occasionally renewed as when the Supreme Court stated in 1943 that, "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." It might be added that belief cannot be coerced...
Toward Spirituality. Dr. du Noüy, who had studied with Radiologists Pierre and Mme. Curie, published some 200 papers, most of them technical, and seven books which showed his growing interest in building a philosophy and a religion upon the foundation of his scientific work...
...This fear may seem in one sense justified. But in another sense it is an effort to cover up, by political action, the weakness of Protestantism in the field of religion itself. The anarchy of Protestantism, its lack of spiritual discipline, its ridiculous tensions between . . . versions of Protestantism ... its half-secular sentimentalities, all these weaknesses are more responsible for its sense of insecurity than anything that Catholicism may do politically...
...other Protestant comment on anti-Catholic feeling, see RELIGION...
...until the Lincoln romanticists were debunked did William Herndon, Lincoln law partner and biographer (with Jessie Weik), get his due. He loved and respects Lincoln, but he insisted on telling what he believed to be the truth: about the illegitimacy of Lincoln's mother; Lincoln's religion, or lack of it; his feeling about his shrewish wife. Herndon's theory was that Mary Todd helped Lincoln to success by driving him from the house to the sanctuary of office and politics. Of course, Mary Todd disliked Herndon intensely, and didn't help when he, trying...