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...more often branded as 'undemocratic' or 'un-American.' This, it seems to me, is a telltale sign of the growing totalitarianization of 'democracy.' American democracy is traditionally a tolerant political way of life. Many would now like to make it a set of secularist dogmas by which all things, even the moral order and religious beliefs, are measured. The professional birth-controllers, the divorce apologists (perhaps, soon, the euthanasiasts) and the aggressive secularists generally more and more have taken to wrapping their beliefs in the Stars and Stripes. They are increasingly ready...
After the war, Dominican Bruckberger got into hot water again: he urged mercy for certain collaborationists, and founded a controversial magazine called the Trojan Horse, in which he attacked not only the Communists but also the "Jacobinism" of France's secularist democracy. Pretty soon his superiors sent him off to the Sahara, where he spent a year as a Foreign Legion chaplain...
Harvard's religious policies came in for vehement criticism by the Rev. Dr. John S. Bonnell in his sermon Sunday at New York's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Dr. Bonnell specifically lashed out at the General Education Report of 1945 which he claimed started a "secularist trend" in American colleges because of its refusal to propose religious instruction in the curriculum...
Religion, according to old (84) Atheist William McCarthy, is a racket. When McCarthy, angel and sparkplug of a group called United Secularists of America, learned that his own state of New Jersey had a law on the books requiring public schools to read pupils five verses of the Old Testament each day, he whistled up his secularist cohorts to the attack. A suit against the state was duly filed by Mrs. Anna Klein, as mother of a student, and Donald Doremus, as a taxpayer, on the ground that the law was unconstitutional (TIME...
...Stokes gives no aid & comfort to those who would interpret the U.S. Constitution as a blueprint for a secularist society. Over & over again, he stresses the basically religious-and Christian-premises of the founding fathers. Even Benjamin Franklin, considered the most skeptical, urged at the Federal Convention in 1787 that each session begin with prayer. "I have lived, Sir, a long time," he said, "and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice...