Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idealism is also a corpse kicked around by the Clubs--tolerated in an otherwise vigorous community because of their aversion to the light of day--who lure congenial men into the fundamental mis-conception that race, religion and "family" determine a person's intelligence, integrity or his sociability...
...society better and thus have selfishness to provide fuel for the next revolution ; he will foster science but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another; he will foster more divorces under the disguise that another partner is 'vital'; he will invoke religion to destroy religion; he will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived; his mission, he will say, will be to liberate men from the servitudes of superstition and Fascism, which he will never define." The Ape of God. "In the midst...
...Jews, Protestants and Catholics should unite against a common foe. It is not a unity of religion we plead for that is impossible when purchased at the cost of the unity of truth, but a unity of religious peoples. ... In a word, if anti-Christ has his fellow-travelers, then why should not God and His Divine Son? . . . We may not be able to meet in the same pew -would to God we did - but we can meet on our knees...
...Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy successor to the Celtic saint himself...
Body & Soul. Those principles add up to no comfortable, carpet-slipper religion. One of Founder MacLeod's favorite quotations is from Dostoevsky: Love in practice is a harsh and terrible thing compared with love in dreams. MacLeod says: "Our present tragedy, with 'one world dying and the other powerless to be born,' is that the church is too ethereal in its instructions, and the world is too material in its constructions. Jesus Christ...