Word: unchristian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useless and stupid." Against such teachings, Dr. William Thomas Manning wrote to the New York Times that "Our moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a vast amount of well-meant but mistaken and misleading and really unchristian teaching about peace." Soon Dr. Manning, Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal Layman George Wharton Pepper, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and others signed a trumpeting manifesto: "Sad is our lot if we have forgotten how to die for a holy cause...
...James Franklin Jarman was making $35,000 a year in Nashville's J. W. Carter Shoe Co., which belonged to his cousins. According to legend, 52-year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe...
Last Sunday, however, trustees of Mr. Larrowe's church met to decide whether fishing on Sunday is unChristian, whether Mr. Larrowe had been guilty of negligence in leaving his congregation, and whether any action should be taken against him. After listening to Mr. Larrowe's views on Sabbath observance, the trustees voted 37-to-1 in his favor. His congregation cheered...
...Philadelphia, into the preserve of Denis Cardinal Dougherty, sped Father Coughlin two nights later. To a National Union rally in the Municipal Stadium he delivered an equally strong paraphrase of his remarks: "This program of destruction [AAA] is unChristian. It is anti-God; it is just downright asinine. . . . The causes which beget Communism are not removed in America. . . . If and when ballots will have proven useless . . . I shall not disdain using bullets...
...Last autumn a conference of Wisconsin Methodists vexed and alarmed laymen by calling capitalism "unChristian, unethical and anti-social," plumping for "social ownership and democratic management of the principal means of production and distribution...