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...existing state) has suffered from "dynastic wars, foreign invasion, disputed successions, revolting colonies, endemic syphilis, impoverished soil, masonic intrigues, revolutions, restorations, cabals, juntas, pronunciamentos, liberations, constitutions, coups d'état, dictatorships, assassinations, agrarian reforms, popular elections, foreign intervention, repudiation of loans, inflations of currency, trade unions, massacres, arson, atheism, secret societies." It has become a totalitarian republic whose dictator is popular because he kept it out of World...
There is still some medical skepticism-not to mention catcalls from the public-about Freud's preoccupation with "sex." Certainly it helped give psychoanalysis (and with it, psychiatry) a bad name. (Another reason was Freud's personal atheism.) Like the "Kinsey report" half a century later, "Freudianism" provided a handy excuse for the loose morals of Bohemians everywhere, and a handy club for belaboring all "repressed" prudes and Babbitts...
...like a cari cature of [what] a Christian civilization stands for." This analysis permitted Lambeth to go beyond the Vatican's flat anti-Communist stand and concede that "in many lands there are Communists who are practicing Christians," i.e., who believe in Marxist economic interpretation but repudiate Marxist atheism. When a Soviet correspondent asked the Archbishop of Canterbury for examples of such "Christian Communists," he was silenced by Canterbury's reply: "The members of the Russian Orthodox Church in your own country." The Archbishop added, "Not all anti-Communist forces are necessarily good forces...
Bennett rates Communism's "idolatry" as a greater fault than its theoretical Marxist atheism. The Communist regards his particular movement as being able to redeem the world. This passionate "belief, says Bennett, "develops a form of complete human self-sufficiency that is incompatible with the Christian understanding of man's dependence upon God. It precludes any transcendent judgment upon the Communist society. It creates a false optimism and fails to prepare the people in a Communist society for the continuing sin that goes with new forms of power...
...atheism got the Rheinische Zeitung into censorship trouble and King Frederick William himself ordered the "Whore on the Rhine" to cease publication. Marx married Jenny, against the opposition of her aristocratic family, and went to Paris. By the time he wrote the Manifesto, he had ironed out the basic tenets of his faith...