Word: religion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patrick's script comments wryly on religion. Bunny, a "you-all" type from the southwestern United States, played with high humor by Louise Latham, claims as her faith "extinctionism." In her credo, "nothing matters... God created man to become extinct; in fact, the world ended six hundred years ago." Since, therefore, Bunny doesn't really exist, her cult tells her "anything I do doesn't matter--it's a divine religion...
...even in a comedy there is room for gravity and beauty. Juniper holds a telling debate with Pepe about the nature of religion that would do some theologians proud. And when Juniper says, in reply to the General's scornful question, "What miracles have you seen?" that he has "seen the bright day follow the darkest night... I have seen individual acts of courage that redeemed the cowardice of nations." the entire audience is hushed...
...call it spiritual therapy," says the Institute of Religion's director, Methodist Minister Dawson Bryan. "You can separate hydrogen from water, but then you haven't got water any more. For years doctors have been treating man's mental and physical ailments, but have been ignoring the spiritual part of him. You can't separate these entirely without destroying the whole person...
...such counseling is the story of a middle-aged man, now making a good recovery from major surgery, who was sinking fast until a chaplain-intern persuaded him that he still had much to live for. "Every person's life is vitally affected by his faith and religion," says Dr. Bryan. "The institute trains the health team to understand and use these spiritual resources...
Scientist Julian Huxley predicted a new, evolutionary kind of religion last week (TIME, Dec. 7), one man must have been in his mind-a Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Just published in the U.S. is the late Father Teilhard's major work: The Phenomenon of Man (Harper; $5), and Huxley himself supplied the introduction. "A very remarkable work by a very remarkable human being," he wrote. "His influence on the world's thinking is bound to be important . . . He has forced theologians to view their ideas in the new perspective of evolution, and scientists...