Word: religion
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Unlikely as it seems, Unidentified Flying Objects (unlikely as they are) may well have resolved the conflict between religion and science...
...Religion, by one Webster definition, is the object of a pursuit arousing "religious convictions and feelings such as great faith, devotion, or fervor," and science, by another Webster definition, is "accumulated and accepted knowledge which has been systematized." The two come together in the field of the UFO, where writers on the subject certainly show great faith, devotion and fervor in their efforts to have the objects regarded as part of accepted and accumulated knowledge...
...psychic phenomena but as the creations of technically superior beings from parts unknown. His evangelistic style is homiletic, catechetical and religious in tone (the promise of an unprecedented revelation to the merely human race has the strangest effect on the nonbeliever). At any rate, the mixture of science and religion is curious, as if Billy Sunday had undertaken a sermon on the subject of the binomial theorem...
...long survive without the support of the Catholic Church, and nowhere is this fact more important than in Argentina. There, the cardinal ranks third in official protocol and regularly moves in presidential circles. To prove his own strong Catholic bent, Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía constantly refers to religion in his speeches and has had large contingents of priests on hand on ceremonial occasions. Yet last week many churchmen were showing signs of washing their hands of his revolution and his government...
...Ghetto." At the same time, the Knights have altered the pitch of their national advertising from conversion to cooperation. Says Homer J. L'Hote, head of the Missouri Knights: "We used to try to make others see that we had the right religion. The attitude we now take is that we are on common ground with them, that we will work along with them." The ground has become so common that when Knights invite Masons to a joint meeting, the speaker is frequently a rabbi. Frank C. Staples, grand master of the New York State Masons, says that Masonic...