Word: religion
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...order or a fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition and success. That faith shaped the American's attitude not only about his role in life but also about his country's role in the world. To a nation that has never lost a war, Douglas Mac-Arthur was being logical: "There can be no substitute...
Died. Joseph Lewis, 79, indefatigable atheist, whose quixotic battles with organized religion spanned nearly half a century; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dedicating his life to "throwing off the dead hand of religious superstition," Lewis in more than 15 books inveighed against religious holidays, the insertion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, and even the issuance of a special stamp at Christmastime...
...hearing the Dionysus in '69 troupe sibilantly repeat, "May I take you to your seat, sir?" in a seatless theater. Brook, of course, should not be blamed for his disciples. He himself expresses uneasy doubts as to whether the theater can restore rit ual or serve as displaced religion...
...emptied of tenderness, beneath which all truths can be told and on which no deceitful divinity has traced the signs of hope or redemption. Between this sky and the faces turned toward it there is nothing on which to hang a mythology, a literature, an ethic, or a religion-only stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch." However, Camus' quest for a lucid, objective ethic for man never allowed him more than a temporary relief in the stones, flesh and stars of touchable truths...
...great system-builders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the libraries of second-rate thinkers. For example, he ransacked the effects of the Puritan ministers and aldermen for evidence for his major work, Religion and the American Mind. The Idea has for Heimert a life of its own, conditioned by the physical furniture of reality but also conditioning it. He has little patience with historians who insist that "objective reality" exists, that it alone determines human action, and that if only we can count all the railroad ties...