Word: religion
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...wider spectrum of voters. The Italian and French parties have explicitly disavowed the old Marxian dogma of a dictatorship of the proletariat as well as the need for violent revolution. Instead, they claim to be committed to such democratic principles as political pluralism and freedom of speech and religion. Italian Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer-perhaps Western Europe's most articulate advocate of "socialism with a human face"-has often proclaimed his commitment to "a pluralistic and democratic system." He most recently and dramatically reaffirmed this in Moscow, at the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
Last December a curious nine-page letter landed in the mailboxes of Christian Science practitioners and local church leaders. It warned that the faith's Boston headquarters was rife with "gross mismanagement, inexperience and lack of Christian ethics." Unless "the Field" demanded a housecleaning, the letter said, the religion could virtually disappear within a decade...
...clever propagandistic revue. Now I finally understood that for Hitler they were almost like rites of the founding of a church... he was deliberately giving up the smaller claim to the status of a celebrated popular hero in order to gain the far greater status of founder of a religion...
...divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways." What brought about this startling conversion goes unexplained. In any case, the sentiments apparently did not remain with Speer: that entry four years before his release is his last reference to God or religion...
...fact, it is clear that Speer is not a believer, in either God or much of anything. In metaphysics as in religion, he is fundamentally an agnostic. Though he decries the lack of morality in Nazi Germany, Speer can offer no alternative. He writes in 1952, "Much too late I am beginning to grasp that there is only one valid kind of loyalty: toward morality," but the remark has an empty ring because Speer has no moral system, still less an allegiance to one. If he ever tried to confront the problems of moral philosophy or religious faith...