Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civil liberties were decreed-freedom -of press, speech, worship, assembly. Terroristic secret societies were ferreted out and abolished. The titles of the peerage were removed. Shintoism was dislodged as the state religion, although the people were permitted to practice it privately. The Emperor was reduced from the status of a god to a symbol of the state and of national unity. Streetcars passing the Imperial Palace no longer stopped so that the conductors could get out and bow. Young Prince Akihito might soon be asking his father what it had been like...
...Moscow, the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate announced that a new church was about to join the Eastern Orthodox Communion: the Syrian Church of India. Claiming some 600,000 souls with 350 places of worship, the church is said to have been founded by St. Thomas the Apostle...
...Worship is a Christian's most important activity, says the statement, but social action comes second; and politics is social action's effective form. But the Christian is not aiming at a mere Marxian dream of material welfare; he desires "the maximum opportunity for the development of individual personalities...
...Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory of Worship forbids a minister to marry a divorced person in less than a year after the divorce has been granted-and then only the innocent party...
...mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which all of us pay some measure of allegiance; and this tribal religion is, of course, sheer idolatry...