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...dachshund was popularized by the American and English people, and regardless of the country of origin of the breed, the treatment of this dog brands the malefactors as unAmerican, unChristian, and a disgrace to the human race. I am a dachshund owner and I might further state that my dog is a better dog than any of us are men. He has never knowingly harmed anyone. I can't say that about any person. I trust the owners of Hans have sufficient money to see that he receives the care he needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...whole isolationist policy is stupid, futile and unchristian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: As to War | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Finland. . . . The activity of idealists-both Christian and non-Christian-trying to do what they can 'to save civilization.' . . . The economic system compelling the U. S. in the trend to war." In its stormy final session, the conference voted down a resolution holding that war is always unChristian, denounced conscription, upheld the Neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Council | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

These Christians objected to the isolationist-pacifist line taken by the Christian Century (and by most of the Roman Catholic press*): "That, since all war is unChristian, Christians in neutral nations should not discriminate between belligerents . . . that Christian citizens of nations at war are disloyal to their Christian faith if they give support to their Governments or armies." This view, said the signers, "seems to us to be due to intellectual confusion and to tend toward moral callousness and national self-righteousness and irresponsibility." In full agreement with most Allied churchmen, the 31 affirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: As to War | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preachers Present | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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