Word: protestantitis
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Started by the University Christian Association and Virginia's faculty, who conceived the idea of pursuing theology "as an intellectual discipline," the lectures so stirred Virginia that similar courses were started at Yale, St. John's College, Drake University (Iowa). Virginia has had as lecturers Philosophers Jacques Maritain...
"Mr. Churchill has given more than a hint that he is for No. 2. That, I suspect, would be my own choice. . . . The Moslems of North-west India are the Protestant Boys of the East, as convinced as any Belfast Orangemen that the Protestant Boys shall carry the Drum, and...
Protestant Exterminators. Polemicist Maynard starts his cracks at Protestants with the coming of the first Protestant settlers. After praising the "notable humanity"of various Spanish conquistadores, he declares that "the policy of [Indian] extermination had to wait for the coming of English Protestants," reflects sadly that "all the Indians . . . might...
2) "Even Protestant officers . . . openly . . . wished they could have none but Catholic chaplains. It is patent that one who is out to save souls will accept any risk in the fighting line, whereas there was not much point in a chaplain who was a superior sort of entertainer putting his...
But Dr. Maynard knows how to give good advice if not to take it. His counsel to journalists: "Merely to expose Protestant bigotry is an endless process, the cutting off of the Hydra's heads, and accomplishes nothing. It is about time that we learned that the most effectual...