Word: unchristian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methods of the Roman Church, and to play our own game of power politics. I say 'tempted,' for this is nothing else than a temptation, the temptation of the easy way. We know as Christians that there is really no easy way through the difficulties of an unchristian world...
...Unchristian Idea. McIntire seldom misses an opportunity to embarrass and harass his opponent. A few days before the Assembly of the World Council of Churches met at Amsterdam last August, McIntire was in Amsterdam holding his own meeting of the "International Council of Christian Churches." Whenever he could get startled reporters to listen, he fulminated that the leaders of the World Council "include radical pacifists and socialists . . . This assembly is going to serve Communist ends." On such occasions, the American Council's impressive-sounding name often wins attention...
...American Council's spring convention in Denver last fortnight, the 30 delegates passed resolutions opposing, among other things, "Brotherhood Week" and federal aid to education. The brotherhood of man, McIntire has said, is an unchristian idea. "Jesus Christ repudiated the popular doctrine that is on the lips of thousands of preachers today-the universal Fatherhood of God. There is no such doctrine taught in the Bible. Neither does its corollary, the brotherhood of man, exist in the Bible...
...Christian." When radiorating Father Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) organized nationalists for Peron in the 1946 elections, Father Dunphy worked and preached against what he called the nationalists' "unChristian" intolerance and lawlessness. For two years thereafter he stuck close to his own parish, occasionally writing letters to such Catholic newspapers as El Pueblo, or Cordoba's Los Principios...
...BOSTON, delegates to the Methodist Quadrennial Conference (TIME, May 10) temperately responded to Bishop Oxnam's ringing call for Christian unity by establishing a "Commission on Church Union" to consider specific proposals. They also adopted a resolution which 1) denounced war as unChristian, 2) urged an attempt at understanding with Russia, and 3) disapproved universal military training. Other decisions: against admitting women preachers to equal standing with men; to raise the church's Public Information budget for the next four years (from $106,000 to $300,000); to spend up to $240,000 on an efficiency survey...