Word: religion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liberal religion of humanitarians has given to the world the great works of such men & women as Horace Mann, Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Jefferson, Peter Cooper...
...claim made by the gentleman is that Liberalism is dying, allegedly because such Liberalism requires a moral basis which it is unable to create or maintain. This is absolutely false. The ideas of goodness in the broader sense are not the exclusive property of, or even result of, religion. The basic ideas of decent and cooperative behavior are but the inevitable product of intelligent people who wish to live together in harmony...
...they should be dispelled by the unequivocal support given him by Secretary of War Patterson, a Republican, and Under-Secretary of State Acheson, as well as by numerous other respected Americans, many of staunch conservative leanings. Furthermore, his statement on democracy, which he links directly with the meaning of religion, was commended nationally by leading newspapers and executives as a laudable definition, one worthy of every American...
...Vashti McCollum, 33, an angry atheist of Champaign, who had brought the subject up, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...
...According to Hercules, My Shipmate, by Robert Graves, the Golden Fleece was a bone of contention in divine power politics. Helle and Phryxus, tools of the "old religion" faction, stole it to spite Zeus, and Phryxus took it to Colchis. Jason, who was pro-Zeus, won it back...