Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is religion, a tradition of progressive enfranchisement of spiritual truth in workable statutes; there is the reality of justice which all along has been the source of British power . . . there is the ideal of liberty which itself gave birth and secret strength to the early individuality of her children as well as to servants and to strangers...
...Sponsored by the Institute of Pastoral Care, the Council for Clinical Training, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, and the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Health...
When tax money is used to transport a child to a denominational school, it might be remembered: 1) the people who subscribe to that denomination also pay taxes; 2) to pay for transportation is not to pay for religion; it is not even to pay for education. . . . The wall between church and state remains -but it is not moved so far over as to crush a child...
...Leave India in God's hands.' " To Churchill that meant "leave her to anarchy." Vividly, and with heavy sarcasm, he summed it up: "Here are these people, in many cases of the same race, charming people, lightly clad, crowded together . . . and yet there is no intermarriage. . . . Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap. It is an astounding thing. Yet the Government expects in 14 months that there will be an agreement on these subjects between these races...
...that behind subsidies to Church education lurks union of Church and State. There is nothing contrary principle of separation of Church and State in the practice of subsidy. American communities have always "subsidized" the Church. By exemption of Church property from taxation the State directly encourages an establishment of religion. Yet it is seldom objected that this represents a sinister union of Church and State. How much more important is this concession than the few pennies involved in picking up parochial school children. The historical fact is that the State has subsidized religion without interfering with it in the least...