Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reader Menin's point of view on science and religion is unfortunate [TIME, May 12], and serves only to emphasize the point of TIME'S article on religious illiteracy...
Anyone acquainted with the scientific method knows that pure science has no place for morals, ethics, or for any of the teachings of love and charity which should mark a Christian's behavior. These things, which constitute the essential content of religion, have never been, and never will be, products of scientific research...
Science and religion are not opposed, but are complementary. Admittedly, there are small skirmishes along the border, but this is no cause for war. At the present time, science is feeling the heavy weight of responsibility in having developed weapons too powerful for man's moral stature. Religion is getting behind. If it is to catch up in time to prevent disaster, its importance must be realized. There is more need for religion now than there ever was before...
...schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty; 2) religion, among religious Russians, is still a strong and deep-rooted influence; 3) children are treated with kindness and gayety, and the treatment blooms in their faces; 4) the Soviet bureaucracy, whatever its sins and shortcomings, appears to have a strong sense of responsibility toward the masses-if none toward individuals...
Such covens, Author Hole explains, were in essence Christian England's last, fading traces of pagan religion, stemming from the same roots as the animal sacrifices of the Greeks and the fertility rites of the Egyptians. When King Saul found himself out of favor with his Maker, he turned to the Witch of Endor for advice and succor-and for centuries after King Saul, kings, scholars and peasants alike turned the same way for the same reason. Witches might be good or bad (i.e., they might practice white or black magic, or a mixture of both), but it never...