Word: unchristian
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...More National Gods. In every war the priesthood has been the govern- ment's greatest aid in exciting warriors to battle. Every Christian nation has averred that God was on its side in conflict. The prelates at Lambeth made a gesture to eradicate this unchristian inconsistency. Said they in effect: Nations should arbitrate their quarrels. If a nation has agreed with other nations to such arbitration (cf. the Kellogg-Briand pact) and then goes to war without attempting to settle a dispute peaceably, then the offending nation's priesthood should not call on God for national help. There...
Last week in the Churchman was launched a drive, by no means the first, to reinstate Bishop Jones, socialist, pacifist, hater of war as unchristian, the man during the late War, accused of being pro-German, said: "I believe most sincerely that German brutality and aggression must be stopped and I am willing, if need be, to give my life and what I possess to bring that about." He questioned that war was the right method, and, therefore, since he was in conflict with his government and his Church, lost his diocese. Today the Protestant churches are pacifistic. No longer...
Personally I am not perturbed over the losses of such souls or concerned about infractions of irrational religious dogma; but having a lively intellectual curiosity, I am interested as to why the idea of birth control should be deemed unchristian and unethical in various quarters...
...House the Wet attack centred on Messrs. Upshaw of Georgia and Blanton of Texas. Congressman Tydings of Maryland declared: "Anyone who dares to say anything against the 18th Amendment is called un-American or a hypocrite. As a matter of fact the prohibition law is unChristian. Listen to what St. Paul said: 'If righteousness shall come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain...
...denounced the Anti-Saloon League and the Volstead Act. At the age of twelve he had signed a pledge never to vote for a law permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages, but the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, he said, are unChristian, "vindictive, vengeful and mercenary," and "by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the Volstead law it has hatched the biggest crop of law-breakers ever inflicted upon a community...