Word: religion
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Lunn's "selective indignation" phrase to de scribe the attitude of many people towards the persecution of religion in Mexico. Religion continues to be persecuted most cruelly by the Mexican Government and a few "licensed" churches do not disprove this assertion. The official educational policy of Mexico is as atheistic as Soviet Russia's. It is a positive anti-God policy, not merely anti-Catholic...
...persecution against the Catholic Church is as relentless and vicious as any persecution in history. But the Marxist liberals have sold Mexico to the world as a great democracy. Has it not a Constitution and dont the people vote? Democracies do not persecute religion or the Church Therefore, everything must be fine in Mexico for it's a democracy-like Russia...
...Hollywood-Rudyard Kipling version of the Empire, compounded of pukha sahibs, Gunga Din, the little brown men, and domains beyond the sea-for him Empire was a living faith, a political necessity, a way of life, a practical program and sometimes almost a religion. Son of brilliant, sensitive Lord Randolph who died young, of a handsome, American mother, Young Churchill was groomed to rule from the start, never let himself or his friends forget it. At 20, after Harrow and Sandhurst, he held a dinner for "those who are yet under 21 years of age but who in 20 years...
Huxley, on the other hand, finding an answer in a religion composed of all the best that's been thought and said, committed himself a couple of hundred pages worth in Ends and Means...
...only one of the 38, Catholic Jacques Maritain, believes firmly in a personal God or in traditional Christianity. As individual as their authors, who range from Humorist James Thurber to Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the credos still managed to agree that the world's state is parlous, that organized religion offers no real solution...