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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expr...

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...s possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless... ...es of two centuries and formulated the creed upon which all the exist- ing Christian churches are based, was one of the most disas- trous and one of t... ...hat the Alexandrine speculations which were then conclusively imposed upon Christianity merit only disrespectful attention at the present time. There ... ...ife of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to storms of theological fea... ...y inci- dentally and because it is unavoidable that he attacks doctri- nal Christianity. In a previous book, “First and Last Things” (Constable and Co... ...vice of God. The tendency of modern religion goes far beyond the al- leged communism of the early Christians, and far beyond the tithes of the scribes...

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... was not specifically of differ- ent race. But this is a Utopia as wide as Christian charity, and white and black, brown, red and yellow, all tints of... ...is least law and more restricted where there is most law. A socialism or a communism is not neces- sarily a slavery, and there is no freedom under Ana... ...on More’s Utopia, hinted at an agreement with Aristotle’s argument against communism, that it flings people into an intolerable continuity of contact.... ... sin of all Utopias hitherto, we can make absolute statements, pre- scribe communisms or individualisms, and all sorts of hard theoretic arrangements.... ...ernment, and the State. Plato and Campanella—for all that the latter was a Christian priest— carried communism to its final point and prescribed even ... ...ato and Campanella—for all that the latter was a Christian priest— carried communism to its final point and prescribed even a community of husbands an... ...mpis and Saint Augustin’s City of God that we must seek for the Utopias of Christianity. *Chapter the Seventh, section 6. 198 A Modern Utopia In the ... ...ies, the general tendency of progressive thought was at one with the older Christian tradition which ignored “race,” and the aim of the expansive libe... ...in- terwoven with this anglicising tendency, which was also, by the bye, a Christianising tendency, was a strong disposition, derived from the Roussea...

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... find in the scheme of conversion and salvation as it is presented by many Christian sects, a very exact statement of the mental processes I am trying... ...iving ancestors at some definite date, at, let us say, the year one of the Christian era. Everyone has two parents and four grandparents, most people ... ... again; but for all we know one Italian proselyte in the first year of the Christian era may have made by this time every Jew alive a descendant of so... ...l, the things most shared and least distinctively me. 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIAN... ...ICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANIT 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY Y Y Y Y And here perhaps, bef... ...nd will either share and trust his income and property with her in a frank communism, or give her a sufficient and private income for her personal use...

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...ough he never failed to please by the charm alike of natural manner and of Christian courtesy; the same spirit of gentleness and kindness very soon pr... ..., and he was ready to give up all, and content to lead the forlorn hope of Christianity, and perish in the front ranks of the noble army. “And having ... ... different case. Your boy is not fit to come into the com- pany of little Christians! Awful as it is to think of, he is al- ready, at his early age, ... ...a great gift of God, and to be waited for with patience. The motto of “The Christian Year” is very beauti- ful. I sent the roses on T uesday. My best ... ...that what struck him most was the calm balancing of arguments, like a true Christian Judge. Sir John spoke of the great comfort he had in this son, cu... ...fate of Paris and France? Of course Republicanism is not the same thing as Communism. But where are we to look for the good effects of Republicanism? ...

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...Bishop by H. G. Wells “Man’s true Environment is God” J. H. Oldham in “The Christian Gospel” (T ract of the N. M. R. and H.) CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER C... ...aying of his that the aim of socialism—the right sort of socialism —was to Christianize employment. Regardless of suspicion on either hand, regardless... ...fault that we’ve differentiated.” “But you haven’t understood the drift of Christianity,” said the bishop. “It’s just to assert that men are One commu... ...pularity when he brought down his consistent friend, the dear old Princess Christiana of Hoch and Unter, black bonnet, deafness, and all, to open a ne... ...d consequently a persona grata with the royal aunts, and that the Princess Christiana was merely just one of a number of royalties now practically at ... ... to the rule of righteousness, which is the rule of God. They turn to that communism of effort in the world which alone permits men to serve God in st...

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...e manners of the native actors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy crick... ...archal. We are in the thick of the age of finance; they are in a period of communism. And this makes them hard to understand. To us, with our feudal i... ...ty exists is vested in the family, not in the individual; and of the loose communism in which a family dwells, the dictionary may yet again help us to... ... Day Saints. At a given moment, he dropped his saintship and appeared as a Christian and the owner of a part of the island of Lanai. The 29 Robert Lo...

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...very much what one might expect from an aunt, that I used as Nero used his Christians to ornament my public buildings; and I finally melted some into ... ..., has, I suppose, the blackest record of uncharitableness, but most of the Christian sects are tainted, tainted to a degree beyond any of the anterior... ...ort of thing that had worried my mother in my boyhood. There was the usual Christian hero, this time with mutton-chop whiskers and a long bare upper l... ... we were equal to such a dream as the peaceful and orderly proclamation of Communism from the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral, after the passing of a si... ... My friend’s next door.” She began to talk of books. She was interested in Christian Science, she said, and spoke of a book. I forget altogether what ... ...rname, odd as it may seem, either I never learnt or I have forgotten. (Her christian name was Milly.) She was tired and rather low-spirited, and dispo...

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...ission which contra- 59 Sinclair Lewis dicted all his defense of duty and Christian patience, and at each admission he had a curious reckless joy. He... ...hem opened with a welcome by the mayor of Monarch. The pastor of the First Christian Church of Monarch, a large man with a long damp frontal lock, in-... ...hich the entire world must tend, if there’s to be a decent, well-balanced, Christian, go-ahead future for this little old planet! Once in a while I ju... ... cities stand together for power and purity, and against foreign ideas and communism—Atlanta with Hartford, Rochester with Denver, Milwaukee with Indi... ...itorials on “The Manly Man’s Religion” and “The Dollars and Sense Value of Christianity,” which were printed in bold type surrounded by a wiggly borde... ...—shame if he doesn’t take part in a real virile hustling religion. Sort of Christianity Incorpo- rated, you might say. “But with all reverence. “Some ...

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...tte. “How are you, my dear … my dear … I am so sorry. I always forget your Christian name and your father’s name.” Mashurina shrugged her shoulders. “... ...she added to Nejdanov, with a smile (he won- dered how she had learned his Christian name and his father’s name), “I know, do not share Simion Petrovi... ...h question, the woman question; the law-court question, realism, nihilism, communism, international, clerical, liberal, capital, admin- istration, org... ...me steps here, Vassily Fedosaitch!” “If you want to call me by my father’s Christian name,” Solomin said slowly, “then it isn’t Fedosaitch, but Fedoti... ... But what am I to call you?” “Call me Mariana.” “And what is your father’s Christian name?” “Why do you want my father’s name? Call me simply Mariana,...

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...Excerpt: A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not...

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...ower? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as again... ...against its reactionary ad versaries? Two things result from this fact. I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a P... ..., their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself. To this end, Communists o... ...lition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of Communism. All property relations in the past have continually been subje... ...udal property in favour of bourgeois property. The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition o... ...cient world was in its last throes, the an cient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to ratio... ...s Clerical Socialism with Feudal Social ism. Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed ag... ... celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monas tic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy, water with which the priest consecra...

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...e Fourth Reporter Part 3 Public ownership and God 1、The Scientific Public Ownership System Is Mahayana Buddhism 2、The Primary Objective of Communism Is to Benefit the People 3、Socialism Is the Realisation of Socialised Production from the Perspective of Social Management 4、Any National Land and Mineral Resources Shall Be Owned by God Instead of Individuals...

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Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

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...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY JES...

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... is an equal opportunity university. Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY ............................................................. ... .............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................ ... ............................................................... 53 MODERN COMMUNISM .................................................................... .......................................................................... 63 COMMUNISM .................................................................... ... as the kingdom of heaven was at hand. Luke adds that he also preached the communism of charity; told the surveyors of taxes not to over-assess the ta... ... stress on baptism or vows, and preaches conduct incessantly. He advocates communism, the widening of the private family with its cramping ties into t...

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...at all. He means monogamy, chastity, temperance, respectability, morality, Christianity, anti-socialism, and a dozen other things that have no necessa... ... ears, burnt palms, a flogging, or a few years in the galleys. That is why Christianity never got any grip of the world until it virtually reduced its... ...lves if we are to act sensibly when we take the necessary reforms in hand. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE First among these is the habit of allowing ourselves to ... ... the habit of allowing ourselves to be bound not only by the truths of the Christian religion but by the excesses and extravagances which the Christia... ...gerous of these, because it is a blasphemy against life, and, to put it in Christian terms, an accusation of indecency against God, is 55 Getting Mar... ...hristianity, because it began under these conditions, made sexlessness and Communism the two main practical articles of its propaganda; and it has nev...

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... not democratic. Communal ownership may also be under- stood, as Anarchist Communism understands it, in the sense of ownership by the free association... ...inces, his father being a legal official, a Jew who had nominally accepted Christianity. Marx studied jurisprudence, philosophy, politi- cal economy a... ...-class leaders. “A spectre is haunting Europe,” it begins, “the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance t... ...er? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism against the more advanced opposition par- ties, as well as agains... ...rialistic interpretation of history is used to answer such charges as that Communism is anti-Christian. “The charges against Communism made from a rel... ...tation of history is used to answer such charges as that Communism is anti-Christian. “The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philo- s... ... ends with an appeal to the wage-earners of the world to rise on behalf of Communism. “The Commu- nists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They ... ...f the most curious features of popular Anarchism is its martyrology, aping Christian forms, with the guillotine (in France) in place of the cross. Man... ... the General Strike is to be regarded as a myth, like the Second Coming in Christian doctrine. But this view by no means suits the active Syndicalists...

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...if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and call themselves Christians, and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for Chris... ...justify me in expressing to my fellow citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious... ...the best means of promoting our own material inter ests, but in a spirit of Christian benevolence toward our fellow men, wherever their lot may be ca... ...is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patrio tism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this ... ...d mockery, poverty and tyr anny, are their reward. That false philosophy is communism. Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inade... ...ell as the in alienable right, to govern himself with reason and jus tice. Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishm... ...rights of the indi vidual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities. Communism maintains that social wrongs can be cor rected only by violenc... ...racy has proved that social justice can be achieved through peaceful change. Communism holds that the world is so deeply divided into opposing classes... ...e differ ences justly and maintain lasting peace. These differences between communism and democ racy do not concern the United States alone. People ...

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...ms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, mer... ...nto her head to console me!” thought Dolly. “All consolation and counsel and Christian forgive ness, all that I have thought over a thousand times, a... ... with him. And that would be soon, he felt. Then, too, his brother’s talk of communism, which he had treated so lightly at the time, now made him thin... ... irritated today? It’s really ludi crous; her object is doing good; she’s a Christian, yet she’s always angry; and she always has enemies, and always... ... always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another frien... ...family, Madame Stahl had smiled contemptuously, which was not in accord with Christian meekness. She noticed, too, that when she had found a Catholic ... ...in, and began not merely attacking it, but intentionally confounding it with communism. “You’ve simply borrowed an idea that’s not your own, but you’v... ...id that it was true—true that he was trying to hold the balance even between communism and the familiar forms, and that this was hardly possi ble. “I...

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...ions that have been caused by the bickerings and bitterness of the various Christian Churches. So that it is not the failure of elementary education w... ... sense that their hearts are with the villagers and not with the townsmen, Christian in the spirit of the parish priest. There are no other Conser- va... ...lass. He believed profit was the devil. His “News from Nowhere” pictures a communism that amounted in fact to little more than a system of private own... ...uthority, and building regulations and so forth, to create, so to speak, a communism of the lower levels. The mass of people whom the forces of change... ...ere assured, could be used as the thin end of the wedge towards a complete communism. The minimum, once es- tablished, could obviously be raised conti... ...y are at any rate not anti- Socialists. If they say they want an organised Christian State (which involves practically seven-tenths of the Socialist d... ... them politically, so long as they force no quarrel on me. Their organised Christian State is nearer the organised State I want than our present pluto... ...holic undoubtedly he was, and yet we find him capable of conceiving a non- Christian community excelling all Christendom in wisdom and virtue; in prac... ...e of the most inconsistent of books. Never were the forms of Socialism and Communism animated by so entirely an In- dividualist soul. The hands are th...

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...to conceive. “He’s right!” she said; “of course, he’s always right; he’s a Christian, he’s generous! Yes, vile, base creature! And no one understands ... ..., and began not merely attacking it, but intentionally confounding it with communism. “You’ve simply borrowed an idea that’s not your own, but you’ve ... ... I consider it’s premature, but ratio- nal, and it has a future, just like Christianity in its first ages.” “All that I maintain is that the labor for... ... that it was true—true that he was trying to hold the balance even between communism and the familiar forms, and that this was hardly possible. “I am ...

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... Bible as if it was one book, which until lately was equally inveterate in Christians and in unbelievers, sees with admiration the vast interval betwe... ...o others, and those nearest to them to those more remote, from that moment Communism is not only practicable, but the only defensible form of society,... ...lieving in universal selfish ness, I have no difficulty in admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the élite of mankind, and ma... ...er, as being more in harmony with the sub mission due to the divine will. Christianity, as well as other religions, has fostered this sentiment; but ... ...her religions, has fostered this sentiment; but it is the preroga tive of Christianity, as regards this and many other perver sions, that it is able... ... occupy nearly the whole of its vast territory. The fresh impulse given by Christianity came but just in time to save arts and letters from perishing,... ...ne, pur sues it by halves. If government schools and schoolmasters taught Christianity, whatever pledges might be given of teach ing it only to thos...

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...ith al- most all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merch... ...her head to console me!” thought Dolly. “All conso- lation and counsel and Christian forgiveness, all that I have thought over a thousand times, and i... ...ith him. And that would be soon, he felt. Then, too, his brother’s talk of communism, which he had treated so lightly at the time, now made him think.... ...ch irritated today? It’s really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she’s al- ways angry; and she always has enemies, and always... ... ways angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another friend ...

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...rbridge, being Silverbridge to all his own people, hardly seemed to have a Christian name;—his godfathers and godmothers had indeed called him Plantag... ...you think I did?’ ‘What did you do?’ ‘I spared him;—out of sheer downright Christian char- ity! I said to myself, “Love your neighbours.” “Don’t be ... ...e heard of Major Tifto. The Major is the Mr Worldly-Wise-man who won’t let Christian go to the Straight Gate. I am afraid he hasn’t read his Pilgrim’s... ...ept father’s and mother’s. ’ ‘Has not Silverbridge ever called you by your christian- name?’ ‘I think not. I am sure he never has. ’ But he had, thou... ...ame from him so suddenly. And yet I expected it. But it was too sudden for christian-names and pretty talk. I do not even know what his name is. ’ ‘Pl... ...e hasn’t thought much about anything he is quite willing to lend a hand to communism, radicalism, socialism, chop- ping people’s heads off, or anythin...

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...e subject of inquiry, and the second State is constructed on principles of communism and ruled by philosophers, and the contemplation of the idea of ... ...y the State is the reality of which justice is the ideal. Or, described in Christian language, the kingdom of God is within, and yet develops into a C...