Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Materialism and science worship are in full retreat, eminent scientists leading the chase. Millikan proclaims that "the mechanistic philosophy is bankrupt." The trend is toward God, all right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...
...spirited campaign against compulsory, monitored attendance at morning prayers, and met with the wrath of the corporation. A mock Platonic dialogue pointed out that there were four monitors at morning services to note absences and only one minister to offer prayers. "Is it not a shameful degradation of the worship of God," wrote the editors, "to make it a mere instrument for police service...
...Tennessee legislature decided that freedom of worship had its limits, passed a law prohibiting handling dangerous reptiles "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." Reason: in the past two years, two ministers of Tennessee's fanatical snake-handling religious cults have died of snakebite...
...opposing the settlement, Justice Jackson hit at a far deeper and perhaps more menacing possibility. If the state is forced to aid church schools by diversion of tax moneys, there can be little doubt that the logical implication of state control of ideas creates a monumental danger to free worship. If a contemporary example is necessary after centuries of lessons, the picture of political interference at the University of Texas applied on a smaller scale, and inserted through the seemingly trivial entering wedge of tax rebates ought to be enough to terrify defenders of any linkage between state authority...
...Scottish mainland work, pray and live together with the 30-odd "young ministers of the Community. The rebuilding of lona is a means to an end, and has a twofold purpose: 1) to learn "what it means to be 'corporately separate' for the 20th Century. By our worship and our common life on the island we get something of ... a microcosmic but concentrated foretaste of what a 'Congregation' should be"; 2) "to sit at meat with craftsmen brothers who . . . are in touch all winter with the mainland industrial pressures and . . . are not slow to tell...