Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view that "The separation of church and state in the U.S. is so secure that for millions of Americans the question arises only in the limited context of education." I am one of millions who see the separation of church and state as something yet to be achieved. Religion, operating as a tax-exempt enterprise with some $77 billion in assets, has managed to inject its taboos and mores into statute and ordinance in every state...
...hell with it" is "open profanity," punishable by statute. Tennessee forbids teaching evolution as contrary to the Bible. Congress pays chaplains to intone superstitions at every session. Chaplains are paid handsomely by the military services, a situation of which Thomas Jefferson took a dim view. Practitioners of organized religion get special rates on transport, entertainment and in many other areas, which amounts to a subsidy from taxpayers. And now we have Dirksen, the Charles Laughton of the Senate, crusading to amend the Constitution in favor of school prayer...
...tells the story of an aristocrat whose pride and obsession with music take from him first his fortune and family, later his reason and life. Set against him throughout and surviving him at last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns religion by spitting in the holy water. The action is ineluctable, the outcome foregone and well-augured. The end is a wild, terrible gallop. The old horse rears to avoid running onto the bow of an abandoned boat and the Zamindar falls, his prized blood dampening the sand...
...Bible -- which he called a "mishmash." The doctrine was thought up by a group of early Greek bishops, and we are asked to believe it on the Church's authority, he said. Moreover, if the doctrine of Christ's descent into hell were part of some primitive religion, he said, we would call it nonsense...
...activity reflect quite strongly the failure of the communist regimes to make much progress in building the "new socialist man." Strongest evidence for this comes from surveys made in 1958 and 1961 on the world outlook of Warsaw students. These surveys indicated changes over this period in attitudes towards religion, socialism, and ideological, social, or political involvement...