Word: unchristian
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...have never seen such a bigoted, unchristian opinion expressed in print as Elizabeth Emmett's denunciation of Roman Catholicism...
...drunkard is not "a moral and social outcast" - though many church people have taken that unchristian view, says the Rev. Alson J. Smith of St. Paul's Method ist Church, Brooklyn. An alcoholic is "someone who could be helped and [is] worth helping...
...weekends drinking and gambling himself, aboard a craft known as the "Bum Boat," an ancient stern-wheeler converted into a houseboat. When the City Council decided one December to clean up the red-light district, he protested vehemently that such an action in the week before Christmas would be unChristian. On such occasions he was a formidable figure-a wry neck kept his head cocked to the right and made him look like an angry rooster. Once he ended a two-hour Council debate by rising and bellowing "Bull!" at the top of his lungs...
...David S. Burgess, Manhattan Congregational minister, cried that the attack was "unChristian and un-American." Requiring every Government official to accept the divinity of Christ, said he, "would bar all Jews, nonbelievers, and a good percentage of Protestants from state and federal appointments. If it had been applied in the past, it would have eliminated many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from participating in national affairs." He might have added Presidents Taft and the two Adamses, Justice Brandeis...
Prime mover against this unchristian hoodlumism was a Methodist, Dr. Allen E. Claxton of the Broadway Temple. He organized an interfaith (Christian and Jewish) group, got 90% of Washington Heights Protestant pastors to preach Sunday sermons against antiSemitism, carry on a day-by-day agitation for religious and racial tolerance. Recognizing that anti-Semitism is not wholly a one-sided matter, the rabbis in the group will also preach to their Jewish congregations on tolerance. Children will receive special instruction at Sunday schools and recreation centers...