Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also a totally immersed Christian who knows his Bible, along with all verses of Amazing Grace, and considers neither religion nor kinship particularly joke-worthy. While Carter does not stem-wind like a "How long O Lord?" Frank Clement or Huey Long, he is a truly Southern orator. He is given to nostalgia, imagery and hyperbole. He declared in his acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden, for instance, that the U.S. income tax structure was "a disgrace to the human race...
...useful. His view of himself and the world has been shaped in large part by a distrust of big money, power and government, the dedication to the heroic mythology of the Confederacy and its gentle traditions that were so often belied by violent reality, the fundamentalist religion, the romantic belief in the redeeming qualities of rural life, and the sense of the region's old isolation, poverty, backwardness and-above all-its preoccupation with race. He also believes the South has been misunderstood. In a speech at Emory University while he was Governor, Carter said: "One of the great...
...paucity of an intellectual culture in the South? Historically, according to W. J. Cash in his classic book, The Mind of the South, the causes are in the rural surroundings, which offered few stimulations; the strength of religion, which answered philosophical questions with prayers; and, most of all, the defense of slavery, which "set up a ban on all analysis and inquiry, a terrified truculence toward every new idea." A simple world spawned simple pursuits. "Horses, dogs and guns, not books, ideas and art" were Southerners' "normal and absorbing interests." Or, as Henry Adams wrote in his Education, "Strictly...
...succinctly in his essay on Concord and Liberty, the word 'religio' does not derive from religare, to bind--that is, man to God. The adjective, as is often the case, has preserved the original meaning of the noun, and religious stands for scrupulous, not trifling, Conscientious. The opposite of religion thus would be negligence, carelessness, indifference, laxity...
...them. Bernard Kummel, professor of Geology, who lists his "History of the Earth," the country's leading textbook on physical geology as the primary source for his students in Geology 18, says, "I'm a missionary--I had a goal. I'm trying to convert the world to my religion through the book. So if they read it, God bless 'em. If they don't, what the hell...