Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reject all belief in anything that could reasonably be called "god" and regard every such notion as a fiction unworthy of worship...
...regret that you feel compelled to reject religious views, and do you often wish it were possible for you somehow to recover religious faith, even though at the same time it appears impossible...
...substantial agreement with the religious tradition in which they were raised; 157 partially agree with it but have important reservations; 44 wholly reject the religious tradition in which they were raised...
...Protestantism steps lightly over the rational incongruities of many doctrines and concentrates instead of upon their "symbolic" aspects. Modelled upon Tillich's conception of Christian myth and symbol, this approach views Protestant theology as a convenient device to teach moral lessons. Such intellectual Protestants, certainly the majority at Harvard, reject transubstantiation, physical resurrection, or even the divinity of Christ, concntrating instead upon the symbolic significance of these beliefs. Intellectualism, however, leaves out the element of faith, a thread inextricably woven in the fabric of Protestantism...
...tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human short-comings! And a substantial majority, though naturally denying the orthodox...