Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jews of East Europe's ghettos to the sport-shirted sophisticates of the West. Gathered from 100 different countries of the Diaspora, they spoke 100 languages and worshiped their God according to the divergent traditions of myriad Jewish sects. Though many modern Jews pay only lip service to their religion, Orthodox Jews dominated Israeli society and lawmaking from the first, are responsible for the many restrictions and proscriptions (no public bus service on the Sabbath, the refusal of restaurants to serve milk and meat at the same meal) that make Israel a sort of secular theocracy...
...upsurge in border-hopping crimes, from stealing credit cards and rented cars to fraudulent property sales and fakery of U.S. dollars. Fortunately, the sheer volume of such crime distracts Interpol from any interest in such divisive matter as spying-or so it proudly claims. "In an affair involving politics, religion or race," runs one of its prime rules, "Interpol is deaf and dumb...
...RELIGION. "The only one left to believe in is Man, so I figure we've got to prepare him for the responsibilities of being...
...know in what I myself believe. Strange and terrible to say: I believe in nothing, nothing that is being taught by religion, and at the same time I not only hate, but despise unbelief. I don't see how one can live and still less how one can die without faith. I am gradually constructing my own beliefs, yet however firm I may be about them, they are not very firm and not very consoling. When my reason questions, their answer is satisfactory; but when my heart suffers and needs an answer, it receives from them neither support nor comfort...
...demands of my reason and the answers given by the Christian religion could be compared with two hands anxious to join each other but whose fingers refuse to do so. I am craving for their union, but he more I try to join them, the worse it gets. Yet I know that it can be done and that they are made for one another. --letter from Tolstoy to Countess Alexandra Tolstaya April...