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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Mar20 Alt ?s Freethinker by Jacoby (9-10).




1.   The men who wrote the Bill of Rights were understandably concerned not with the disproportionate power of any minority but with what? (269).

2.   Who was dubbed “the father of hate radio?” (276).

3.   In what year were the words “under God” added to the Pledge of Allegiance. (287).

4.   On the right, Enlightenment bashers were only too ready to place the responsibility for communism (and even Nazism) at the door of what? (291).

5.   Who wrote “The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation.” (300).

6.    Churches and their leaders have a perfect right, of course, to make the case for their moral views and social values, whether conservative or liberal, in both political and nonpolitical venues. But they do not have the right to do so with immunity from criticism simply because what? (313).

7.    The secularist victories, of the postwar [WWII] area, were achieved mainly where? (314).

8.   Many closet atheists preferred to call themselves what? (316).


 Alternative discussion questions.


1.   Where do you see parallels today to what Vashti McCollum experienced from the hate mail she received because she refused to sign the “released time” form for her son?

2.  Was the use of God popular with business and religious leaders in the 50s and 60s because it allowed them to control employees and citizens?

3 comments:

  1. SJ (9-10) Alternative Questions
    1. In the fourth decade of the twentieth century, America was still overwhelmingly what type of nation?

    2. What was the true importance of the Catholic influence in the thirties?

    3. The church's labeling of birth control as a communist conspiracy was the product of what?

    4. What was Fulton Sheen's closely guarded family secret?

    5. When did Charles Coughlin make his radio debut?

    6. Why did the Catholic church finally decide to put an end to Coughlin's political writings and speeches?

    7. What was one religions group alarmed by the Catholic attack on "Reds"?

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  2. Don's Alt Question Answers:
    1. Tyranny of the Majority
    2. Charles Coughlin
    3. 1954
    4. the French Revolution.

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  3. Alternative Quiz Questions for March 22:

    1. What is the virtue of justice's extremism?

    2. Who was the poet of divine democracy?

    3. What issue was used to first unify feminists?

    4. What motivated Nonobservant Jews?

    5. What did businessmen never dream would happen?

    Alternative Discussion Questions:

    1. Why do you think that Jewish women led the charge for atheism?

    2. Is it possible that we all believe in God, we just don't know it?

    3. Would you say that the United States' sexual repression is primarily because of religion?

    4. Is religion feminist?

    5. Do you believe that communism and religion can coexist?

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