Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PROPHETS-James M. Gillis- Macmlllan ($2.00). This book endeavors to refute the Messrs. Shaw, Wells, Freud, Conan Doyle, Haeckel, Neitzsche, Mark Twain, Anatole France. It concludes with a chapter on The Revival of Paganism and another called Back to Christ-or Chaos. Written by a Paulist Father, it is sectarian religious propaganda. It goes so far as to call a rival creed "not a religion but . . . a patchwork composed of odds and ends, shreds, and fragments of false philosophies, put together in an amateurish way by a sadly uneducated Yankee woman...
...truth of the matter is that Harvard thinks just as much about religion, and knows as much about religion as any of its sectarian brothers, but in a different way. Individual exploration takes the place of a general and unquestioning faith. The quality of mysticism, which Professor Lake so stresses, is reduced to a minimum, and religion becomes a cold academic fact. This spirit, condemn it or not, is born from the very nature of Harvard's critical unemotionalism, While it exists, no amateur, preacher and no narrowing dogma can chain the minds of Harvard undergraduates...
Religion is a dangerous thing for any government to handle without deliency. In the present instance, besides risking a serious affront to all Christian nations operating non-sectarian schools within Turkish boundaries, the Assembly has been particularly careless of the toes of the French, whose prestige in the Near East has been great. When it is considered that the success of the Kemalist regime depends to a large extent upon the cooperation of other nations, particularly that of France, the expediency of this most recent display of religious enthusiasm is doubtful in the extreme...
Many Protestants who have high respect for the Catholic Church in the U. S. bitterly resent its activities in South America. Last week the story of a Protestant youth, Senor Haya de la Torre, was widely told in the sectarian press...
...Personally, I am strong for religion," continued Professor Holmes, "and I resent attacks against sectarian schools. Teachers should have some responsibility over religion. When a man takes up the profession of teaching he devotes his life to the general betterment of his pupils. He becomes fundamentally interested in advancing man to his furthest ends. Religion is undoubtedly so closely connected with this purpose, that a teacher, in order to achieve his end, really must teach...