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...with those words, one reaches the self-contradictory heart of Harvard unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia, forgotten from what book his ethical principles originally sprang, in Whose name meaning and purpose have overtly or covertly been found in life since time immemorial, and at Whose omnipotent behest good and evil were first thought to be distinguished and have been held in rigid antithesis ever since...
...with those words, one reaches the self-contradictory heart of Harvard unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia, forgotten from what book his ethical principles originally sprang, in Whose name meaning and purpose have overtly or covertly been found in life since time immortal, and by Whose will good and evil were first thought to be distinguished and have been held in rigid antithesis ever since...
...bomb of a book that shattered the complacent pane through which 19th century Europe surveyed the weather of the soul. To the religious, it is a prophecy of the apocalypse that has been visited upon the 20th century, and a sovereign medicine to the malady of unbelief. But to Hollywood, it makes none of these points. What Dostoevsky was really trying to express, according to this picture, is a simple, eternal verity: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl...
...ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none of the Poles could really believe were just for do-it-yourself fun and not state property. Their womenfolk gaped in equal unbelief at a huge display of elaborate American toys-no Communist state can afford to waste production means on such frivolity as that-and the kids themselves reveled in a forest of vending machines, happily buying Cokes, candy and gum with nickels and dimes passed out gratis by the management...
...religionists' and the 'secularists' cherish the same basic values and organize their lives on the same fundamental assumptions." True Christian or Jewish witness, Herberg points out, may be "much more difficult under these conditions than when faith has to contend with overt and avowed unbelief...