Word: religion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scare anyone out of the idea, Capek takes a poor, benighted nihilist, lets him blow up the world, and start all over again. Adam, the nihilist, proceeds to get himself mixed up with a clinging vine, mass production, Nazism, Communism, religion, and democracy, and in the end passes the world back to God, apparently mighty glad to get out of the job of Creator. Yet while Mr. Capek takes agile swats at every political theory in sight, his only constructive theory seems to be to leave everything in the hands of God. Perhaps that's all the Czechs...
Last week New York City's pugnacious little Mayor LaGuardia (an Episcopalian) banned the picketing of churches. He wrote his Police Commissioner: "There is no labor dispute involved, and in this country, where freedom of religion is guaranteed, theological differences or even philosophical controversies are not contemplated in the law permitting picketing. . . . There is nothing in the Norris-La-Guardia Act which permits the picketing of God. I ought to know...
...Roman Catholic Church: "Why do intelligent people accept this strange heap of mental corruption as a religion and a way of life...
...have a profitable system. Instead of waiting around for authors with ideas, they furnish the idea themselves and hire a likely author to do the job. Since they first tried out their system with Will Durant's Story of Philosophy, they have successfully sold a volume apiece on religion, art, mathematics, history, science, adventure and astronomy. Last week they got around to music...
...anthropology, occultism. The fashionable gibber of Madame Blavatsky from Tibet, the yoga writings of one Pryse ("All I say is Om," said Lawrence), the Bergsonian view that all was flux, the Freudian unconscious, the Jungian libido, many studies of primitive culture were all skimmed by Lawrence for his private religion. By the time he got to Susan, says Scholar Tindall with no particular depth, deep called to deep...