Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tryst with Destiny. Thus dedicated, India's rulers turned to the secular business of the evening. At 11 o'clock they gathered in the Constituent Assembly Hall, ablaze with the colors of India's new tricolor flag-orange, white and green. Nehru made an inspired speech: "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge. . . .At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom...
...lifted up. It preaches the love of God, but it also preaches the fear of the Devil. . . . The Catholic doctrine of Heaven has meaning because there is meaning and reality in the Catholic doctrine of Hell. . . . As Protestants I wish we'd stop worrying and clamoring against the secular competition with Roman Catholicism and begin to worry a little bit about the spiritual competition...
Anxious as ever to protect their young from the doctrinal indifference of the secular world, the delegates resolved that the Synod should aim during the next 25 years to get 50% of its children into parochial schools. Present percentage: 27.8%, in 1,090 parochial schools. For Missouri Synod Lutheran theological students they voted a new $1,500,000 senior college. They also agreed to raise $2,500,000 for world relief...
...villa of a Hamburg patrician, is a school where German youths in the British zone may take a ten-day "quickie" course in the principles of Christianity. The only such school in Germany, it was set up by the Rev. Neil Nye, an R.A.F. warden, to supplement the secular re-education of young Germans who have known no god but Hitler. The school's stated aim: to fill "the need for a definite and satisfying faith on which to rebuild the life of Europe." No Church of England outpost, St. Michael's House has an all-German lecturing...
...secret of Bend Sinister's effect is that it places side by side, heightened by the selectivity of an adept and angry writer, the most moronic abominations of totalitarianism and the finest lights of the secular European mind. The hoaxed and flattered humanity of the mass man is contrasted with the honest and deeply suffering humanity of the individual; but all this is done so lightly that it seems a mocking and superior amusement...