Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human beings did not fit the bed of Utopia, their heads were chopped off. The American Revolution, on the other hand, assumed that the state was made for man. The founding fathers, suggests Bruckberger, had the uncommon sense to recognize that the people "have no right to deify and worship themselves." Thus the U.S. was spared the terrible idolatry of the 20th century's false god, the totalitarian state...
Radcliffe girls are less likely to reject their religious tradition entirely, more likely to pray and attend worship services, more outspoken against intermarriage, and more anxious to raise their children in their own faith. And unlike Harvard, Radcliffe girls are slightly more interested in religion than they are in politics...
Weekly church attendance attracts the same proportion at Harvard and Radcliffe, 23 per cent. Radcliffe, however, shows a larger proportion of students who worship twice a month or monthly than Harvard does and there are fewer 'Cliffies who never or seldom attend church. While 11 per cent of Harvard believers never go to church or synagogue and 12 1/2 per cent only twice a year, the corresponding figures for Radcliffe are a mere 5 per cent and 4 per cent...
...reject all belief in anything that could reasonably be called "god" and regard every such notion as a fiction unworthy of worship...
...undergraduates consider themselves a fairly pious lot, the nature of that piety raises serious questions as to whether any previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called `god'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes sense Him as a mighty spiritual `presence' permeating all mankind and nature." The agnostic's view came...