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Article: Days of protest.(Editorial)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 8, 2000
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PART OF THE FABRIC of public life in America during the post--World War II years, perhaps the cross-stitch that held the symbolic boundaries in place, was anticommunism. Most mainline church editors were part of it. The launching of Sputnik in 1957 provoked a "crisis" and, explained a CENTURY editorial, exploded the "assumption of a kind of general, built-in American superiority" (January 1, 1958). Over the next few years, the editors became certain there existed an absolute incompatibility between Christianity and communism. Though a 1961 editorial warned readers not: to "commit the great blasphemy of confusing democracy with the kingdom of God," its author, most likely ...