Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STUDENT: I see you're wearing a turned-around collar and a yarmulke. Just what is your religion...
LOGOS: Then accuse him of objectification. If he doesn't go away, ask him what he did before he got religion, before his ultimate faith-concern, or better still, Selbstverständnis...
STUDENT (writing furiously): Are you sure Jargon really works? In religion, I mean...
DEAN: Exactly. (Moist of eye, he pats the new graduate on the head.) You can now take your pick of careers in medicine, religion, business and geopolitics-as well as wine-tasting and art criticism. And if you fail at everything, there's a job for you at Instant College. (Calling after him as the student exits.) And remember, it is better to curse one candle than to light the darkness...
...underlying premise of the Communist quest for dialogue is that Karl Marx actually was not so ill-disposed toward Christianity as might be supposed from his famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Garaudy argues that this condemnation must be understood as a response to the church's alliance with 19th century Europe's capitalist and authoritarian regimes. Marx and even Lenin, says Garaudy, were careful to distinguish the institutionalized church as they knew it from early Christianity, which was genuinely "revolutionary and democratic in spirit." Moreover, Marx acknowledged that Christianity had raised the right...