Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who had eyes to see (see RELIGION) could see him working away in the kitchen, as happy as' a literate lark, as busy as a broadminded beaver...
...second great truth to which the signs of the times portend is that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization, which regarded religion as an addendum to life, a pious extra, a morale-builder for the individual, but of no social relevance...
...descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself, that he would deceive even the elect-and certainly no devil we have ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion? He will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty, not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves...
...churches are at a tremendous disadvantage, for we are in essence waging a desperate spiritual warfare in a most critical period of history, at the same time carrying a vast weight of nominal Christians who, as someone has remarked, having been once inoculated by weak religion, seem to be impervious to the real thing...
...Berlin, Conn., last week the Board of Education moved to sidestep the touchy issue of religion in public schools, turned down a Gideon offer of 650 New Testaments. The Gideons were unperturbed. Said one: "Our goal is to get [New Testaments] to the . . . school children in America from the fifth grade through high school. . . . We are carried by faith. . . . We've just started...