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What do you mean by inflicting upon a general audience four columns of sectarian slush (pp. 20-21, Nov. 16) ? If sect barons fight among themselves about matters connected with politics or ethics or immaculate conceptions, such rot may perhaps be called legitimate news when stated in your own finely compressed style. But descriptive matter about "elevating the bun," bell ringing, genuflections, etc., in a journal like yours is STEALING THE SPACE YOUR SUBSCRIBERS ARE ENTITLED...
...ridiculous. This is a Christian land. No religion on earth teaches the brotherhood of man but the Christian religion. No one would think of permitting this. A sect that decrees its girl babies to be thrown into ash cans! Moreover, we put up statues of our saints as reminders. But a statue of Buddha is a shrine to be worshiped...
...wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons, and there was Mrs. Eddy. What's the matter with any or all of these...
...propaganda; i. e., the inculcation, substantiation, and fastening on of some particular creed, social, political, economic, or religious, and the confirmation of prejudices of class, sect, or race...
...There is the widespread misconception that if one accepts the evolutionary process as the method which God used, he will find himself in a moral dilemma. Regardless of sect or creed, all followers of Christ must accept His teaching that the lay of life is love, that service to others is the true guiding principle, that self-sacrifice, even to death, is the best trait a man can display...