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Two Frames of Reference

Meyerhoff, Hans | December 27, 1952 issue

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The article discusses the book "Religion and the Modern Mind," by W.T. Stace. When historical criticism of the Bible be!an to go to work on the foundations of religious fundamentalism, when Comte built a new church on the rack of scientific positivism, when Darwinism seemed to eliminate God or cosmic purpose as unnecessary hypotheses for an explanation of the origin and evolution of life. When Marxism began to expose the social political roots of religious beliefs and institutions in order to reject all religion as an opiate, a sentiment subsequently echoed by Freud's description of religion as a mass neurosis.

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RELIGION & the Modern Mind (Book); CRITICISM; LITERATURE; FUNDAMENTALISM; COMMUNISM; REALISM

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