Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formally religious," and his objection to being drafted was solely related to the Viet Nam war. Drawing from sources as varied as Learned Hand and Alfred North Whitehead, Judge Wyzanski began his legal analysis with the broad contention that the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion means "that no statute can require combat service of a conscientious objector whose principles are either religious or akin thereto...
...course, no one can prove that astrology is true; nor can it be refuted, since, like religion and philosophy, it is based largely on conjecture and metaphysics...
...little white clapboard house where he was reared (now open to the public), he spoke of his boyhood and his parents, who were members of the River Brethren, a Mennonite sect: "Their Bibles were a live and lusty influence in their lives. There was nothing sad about their religion." Of his own faith, he once said: "I am the most intensely religious man I know. Nobody goes through six years of war without faith." Of the citizens whom he knew as a youth: "To those people I am proud to belong...
Sociologist Thomas Luckmann of Frankfurt University predicted that eventually the categories of "belief" and "unbelief" will disappear. "A particular form of religion, institutional specialization, is on the wane," he contended, and as it goes, the distinctions between believers and nonbelievers will fade. One type of person will then evolve his private set of ultimate values; another will find that he can express his best through one of the churches that remain. But Luckmann warns that the surviving churches must understand their true role: not to command belief but to help each person articulate his beliefs from within himself...
...Whereas religion, organizations and conferences based on the higher aspirations of man have failed to bring the human race closer to lasting peace, the intelligence services based on the more primitive instincts of distrust and enmity have ironically become the more effective instruments in preserving peace amongst the major powers in the atomic age." Thus Louis Hagen, a British author and movie maker, concludes his well-documented "dossier of espionage" conducted since 1945 in a secret political struggle over Germany...