Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising new generation of social-minded priests and the elderly, hidebound church hierarchy bent on maintaining a cautious and comfortable status quo. Over the years the Spanish church-in the pay and shadow of the Franco government-has drifted out of touch with almost everything it stands for. Its religion has become one that is imposed rather than preached. "We must identify ourselves with the people, their frustrations and their fulfillment," said one young priest. "The problem is vital, not only for the church in Spain but for Spain itself. Authoritarian governments do not solve problems. They merely postpone them...
...extraordinarily elusive personality; his volatility and suspicion of all white men combined to give him the reputation of being the "angriest Negro in America." His character demanded total commitment, and so, when introduced to Muslim teachings and to Elijah Muhammed, he devoted himself almost compulsively to the religion and its leader...
Although nontheistic, Ethical Culture has legal recognition as a religion. Its ministers, called leaders, conduct marriage and funeral services and preside at Sunday morning meetings, which blend organ preludes and thoughtful moral lectures on issues of the day. Most of them have a practical knowledge of what they speak. Jerome Nathanson, chairman of the Fraternity of Leaders, heads the New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment. Another leader, Algernon Black, is active in SANE and the Euthanasia Society of America...
...electing John Kennedy their first Roman Catholic President, U.S. voters swatted down the WASPish fetish that religion is automatically a criterion for presidential or vice-presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination. For geographic balance alone, the G.O.P. might well pick Romney's new but warm friend, New York Senator Jacob Javits, as his running mate, there by setting up an unprecedentedly balanced, Mormon-Jewish ticket...
...make the concept of the "death of God" not only blasphemous but laughable. I have found, too, that the citizens of Hollywood are as strong in their devotion as are their priests and ministers and rabbis. This God-is-dead premise seems to me merely a fad; religion will live through...