Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toughest remaining barrier is religion. Such states as New York and Massachusetts generally refuse to grant adoptions to couples of mixed religions, or nonbelievers...
...feel rather envious and accuse them of being little monsters. Are they? To my mind they are hardly different from previous young generations. It is our nature to call them freaks, theirs to mistrust us. And their inheritance is not all roses, but they manage. They face religion boldly, honestly, making us look the old fools we are. As for sex, with which we are happily or unhappily obsessed, it is no problem to them; they are cutting it to size...
...André Malraux expects too much when he asks for images to deny man's nothingness; that is turning art into religion. But if art need not deny the nothingness of man, it is urgent for man to deny the nothingness...
...Money & Religion. About 80% of the adopted children are born to unwed mothers, and, despite vastly improved methods of birth control, the loosening of moral standards has trebled the official illegitimacy rate in the U.S. since 1940.* At the same time, the Depression-born ranks of people aged 25 to 35, who most commonly want to adopt children, are proportionately slender now. There are still many more young couples wanting children than there are available infants. But the ratio, once 10 to 1, is now down to 5 to 1 in small towns, 3 to 1 in New York...
...They worship money and are doped by religion. Money is the thing most thought of by American students because it is the key to enjoyment. As a means of making money, "knocking other people down to step into their shoes" has been fostered since their childhood as a kind of philosophy of life. To seek personal advancement, they may, with a dagger, pierce the back of the person who "obstructs" them, be that person one of their best friends! In Chicago there was the conspiracy of two university students to kill a baby. Their motive was very simple...