CHRISTENDOM
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(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
abandonment by Witnesses: su 87-88; w59 307; w58 12, 14; w57 244; w53 565; w35 297-298; w33 311; pp 205
abortion: w85 5/15 19; w81 4/15 30; w77 668; w73 419-420
apostasy: w81 2/15 27; kc 89-94; w79 8/1 9-21; g79 10/8 8-9; w78 5/15 27; w77 755; w75 166-168; w75 201-204; w75 253-254; w75 729-730; sl 208-214; w74 592; po 170; ka 374-385, 388-394; w71 628-629; kj 78-79; w69 139-140, 389-390, 404-406; is 173-174; qm 286-291; w66 554-555; li 333-335; w65 218; w64 76, 329, 332; g64 1/8 7; g64 1/22 27-28; w63 13-14; yb63 16-17; g62 4/22 25; w61 552, 655-656; w60 63-64, 516, 750; g60 2/8 4-5; w59 291-292, 561-564, 573-574, 597-598; w58 9-10, 12-14, 166, 214, 621-623, 629; pa 161-168; yw 206-210; g58 9/8 7; w57 227-228, 620; w56 10-11, 387-389; w55 678; qm55 286-291; g55 1/22 23; g54 11/8 3-4; w53 262; nh 192; w51 661-662; rm 266-277; w50 165, 457-462; g48 6/22 18-19; g46 6/19 16-18; rw 54-58; w42 22, 27; g42 9/30 3-8; ci 339-340; g40 2/21 3-11; w38 349-350; w34 13, 189-191; w33 310-311; pp 203; w31 243-249; v-1 63, 179-214, 335
art:
pagan influence: w78 4/1 7
as viewed by pagans: g61 10/8 30; w59 206; w58 139, 317; w57 168; bn 9-17; g38 4/20 24
atheism: w70 80; is 166; g69 11/8 31; w68 3-4, 285; g66 4/8 5-6; w64 389-391
atrocities against Jews: g75 2/22 18-19; g71 12/8 3-4; g66 11/8 18-19; g65 10/22 6; g64 3/22 3-4; g64 5/8 9-18; w56 325-326; g56 11/8 16-20; g56 12/22 17-20; lg 207-208; w45 115; g45 8/15 26-28; g44 1/19 19; g44 5/24 6-7
attitude toward—
Bible: w82 10/1 8; g82 3/8 4-13; g79 2/8 30; w77 361; w76 396; g74 8/8 30; g74 8/22 9-11; tp73 33-34; g73 4/8 30; g73 5/22 23-24; w72 169; g72 1/22 5, 29; g72 4/8 23-24; w71 548, 561; w71 628; w71 675-676; kj 157; g71 4/8 30; g71 8/8 26; w70 27; w70 70-71, 79, 85-86; g70 2/22 4; g70 4/8 16; g70 4/22 21-23, 29; g70 9/22 22-25; w69 734; is 11, 33, 70, 76-77, 163-165; g69 2/22 31; g69 4/22 15, 25-26; g69 6/22 30-31; w68 483-484; g68 4/22 13-15; w67 15-16; yb67 22-24; g67 2/22 5-9; g67 4/8 18, 20, 28; g67 6/22 27; w66 645-646; g66 2/8 6; g66 9/22 4; g66 12/22 20-21; w65 419-420; g65 3/8 27, 29; g65 4/22 13, 30; g65 10/8 22; w64 227-228; g64 4/22 10; g64 7/8 27; g64 7/22 5-6; g64 10/8 14; w63 7-8, 11-12; yb63 5-7, 12-14; g63 3/8 7; g63 7/22 29; w62 304; g62 4/22 22-23; g62 12/22 12, 30-31; w61 35-36; g61 5/22 3-4; g61 10/8 6-8; g61 12/22 29; g59 3/22 7-8; w58 573, 648; w57 40-43, 223, 351, 580; w56 168, 259-260, 711; w55 643; g55 9/22 19; g52 10/22 4; w51 326; g51 10/22 25; g48 7/22 7-8; g36 8/12 727; g35 5/8 492
Christ’s presence: w84 12/1 4-8
divine name: na 21; w79 4/1 15; yb79 60; w78 5/1 12
divorce: g85 3/22 30; w77 39
earth’s future: w84 2/15 4
human rights: g79 9/8 7-8
idea of religious truth: w84 10/15 26
Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb79 104, 108-109, 137, 139-141; g77 4/8 29; hs 142-143; yb74 36-38, 40, 56, 100, 103-105, 108; w73 748-749; yb73 117-119, 151-159, 191; g73 6/8 16-26; w72 147-151, 574-575, 749; yb72 127, 131, 133, 138, 140, 150-151, 153-154, 160-161, 178, 185-187, 225, 235, 237, 241-242; w71 508; kj 315; yb71 116, 170; yb70 262; w69 713-714; yb69 227, 234-235, 265-266, 279; w68 325-326, 459, 542; yb68 265; w67 18; yb67 28; g67 6/8 10; w66 556-557, 559, 562-569, 591, 611-612; g66 10/8 31; g66 10/22 26; yb65 140-141; w64 30, 451-452, 653-654; yb64 42; g64 6/8 12-13; w63 15-16, 749-750; yb63 20-21; w62 484; g62 4/22 26, 29-31; w61 633-634; g61 10/8 30-31; w59 138-139; jp 79, 82-83, 146-147; w53 475-476; nh 197-198; wl 183-188; rg 77-78; w37 167-168; w34 13; g30 11/12 99-102
Jesus Christ: w78 4/15 11; g75 3/8 29; g74 3/8 29; pm 325-326; w71 8; yb71 5; g71 1/8 29
Jesus Christ if he returned to earth: w83 6/1 11
Kingdom: w84 12/1 14-15; w74 101; w74 614; hu 8-9; w73 614, 616; dy 12-13; w70 196-199; w66 500, 657; w64 237-239; g64 8/22 7; w63 621-622; bf 502-503; wg 21-23; w62 239-240, 615; tc 8-9; w60 627; sw 23; w58 732; nh 245; rm 291-301; w46 310-316; w32 38; v-1 211
modern Israel: w83 5/15 15
nuclear weapons: g85 1/8 11
reincarnation: g75 4/8 27
witnessing: w85 1/1 15
Babylon the Great (Re 17:5): w80 10/15 22-23; ka 312-313, 316, 393-394; w72 587, 749; kj 80, 180, 190-191, 206-207, 255, 289-290, 343; w66 309, 555, 689; w64 77; g64 6/8 10; w63 749-750; bf 499
daughter organization of: sl 235-236
baptism with fire: hs 126-127
beginning: w84 12/1 6-8, 12-13; gh 43; hs 55, 140; w75 597; w75 691; sl 208-209, 226, 235; po 170; ka 182-183; w72 625-626; dn 19-20; g72 6/8 12-16; w71 628-629; w70 714; w67 232; w66 555, 689, 719; w63 725
beliefs: w74 620; ts 37, 46, 64-68; hu 21; w73 232-233, 238-239; g73 1/8 16-19; g73 2/22 27-28; g73 3/22 16-19; g73 7/22 27; w72 100, 508; g72 3/22 5-8; w71 355-356; w71 627-628; w71 646-647; kj 159-161; g71 6/22 23-24; w70 683-684; g70 4/22 17; w69 419-424; g69 4/22 10-16; w67 232-234; g67 4/8 27; g67 7/8 30; g66 10/22 12; w64 390; g64 7/22 8; w63 7-8, 11, 749; bf 502; yb63 5-7, 12-14; g63 5/8 8; g62 1/22 30; w61 42-43; g61 3/8 5-8; g61 5/22 27-28; g61 10/8 7, 9-12, 19; g61 10/22 29; w60 229-231; w56 259-260; g56 6/22 5-6; w55 207; cy 12; w53 362; g52 11/8 13-17; g47 12/22 3-8; ta 345-356; g39 10/4 29-30
Trinity: w84 8/1 20-24
Bible knowledge lacking: w79 8/1 18-19; g75 6/8 29; g73 2/22 6-8; g72 2/8 24; g72 12/22 29; yb71 116; g71 4/8 30; w70 85-86; g70 2/22 12; g67 9/8 22; g67 11/22 17; w66 456; w65 510; w64 228; g63 1/8 30; g63 1/22 5; g63 7/22 7; g62 4/22 23; g62 5/22 8; g62 6/8 30; g62 6/22 27; g62 11/22 6; w61 35; g61 5/22 29; g61 7/8 30
black separatist churches of Africa: g81 1/22 12-15
bloodguilt: w79 8/1 14-15; w79 11/1 6-7; w78 1/1 14; gh 43-45; sl 216-217; w74 145; w73 93; w73 126; w73 306-308; w72 311-312, 324, 391; w72 574; w71 629; kj 103-105; g71 9/8 31; g70 4/22 20; w67 500; w66 550-552; w64 483; w63 749-750; bf 543-545; w62 238; w60 607; g56 6/8 5-8; w55 715-716; sr55 232-233; g46 10/22 7; g36 8/12 731-734; pp 203; v-1 329-331; lt-2-30 111
Bolivia: g77 3/22 21-22; g77 7/8 13-15
Britain: g85 6/22 14-19
burial rites: g68 5/22 19
charismatics: g82 2/8 3-11
churches:
attendance: w75 200; w75 323-324; g75 4/8 24; g75 12/22 30; g74 9/8 29-30; g73 3/22 29; g72 4/8 21; g70 4/22 6-7; g70 5/8 31; g70 6/8 30; g69 2/22 31; g69 4/22 3-4, 30; g69 10/22 30; g68 2/22 3-4; g68 5/8 30; g68 12/8 26; g67 2/8 30-31; g67 5/22 30-31; g67 8/8 8-11; g67 10/22 30; w66 456; g66 3/22 31; g66 4/22 30-31; g66 9/22 4; g65 5/22 13; g65 6/8 30-31; g64 4/22 4-6, 11; g64 8/8 8, 10; g64 8/22 29-30; g64 10/8 30; g64 11/8 21-23; g63 2/22 30; g63 5/22 30-31; g63 7/8 30-31; g63 10/22 30; g63 11/8 30; w62 453-455; g62 3/22 30; g62 4/22 23; g62 5/22 24, 31; g62 6/22 27; g61 3/8 30; g61 10/8 4-5, 18; g61 12/8 30; g60 1/8 30; g60 10/8 30; w59 722-723; g59 3/22 5-8; g58 9/8 23; g56 6/8 24; g55 12/8 19; g54 2/22 16; w53 649-652; g53 9/22 3; g52 6/22 20; w50 100; g49 6/8 16; g49 12/8 18; g41 11/12 11; g35 8/28 758; g31 9/30 858; g30 4/16 471-472; g30 9/17 826-827
buildings: w75 263; g75 4/8 24-25, 31; w74 490-491; g73 3/22 29; g72 8/8 30; g71 2/22 30; w70 451-452; g70 7/22 21-22; g69 7/8 3; g69 10/22 30; w68 39, 451-452, 630-633; g68 2/22 4; g68 5/22 31; g68 12/22 31; g67 11/22 18; g67 12/22 29; g66 11/22 30; g64 8/8 9; g64 11/8 22; g63 4/8 30; g63 11/8 30; g62 1/22 31; g62 4/22 23; w57 425; g57 11/8 25-26; rm 45-46; w47 278; g40 9/18 24
children’s view of: g75 8/22 29-30
gambling: w74 524; g74 11/8 12-13; g71 11/8 30; w70 99; g68 5/8 31; g68 7/8 30; g68 11/8 29; g67 6/22 30; g67 7/22 31; g67 10/22 22-24; g66 5/8 30; g65 1/8 20; g64 9/22 30-31; g64 10/8 15; w63 645; g61 3/8 29; g61 4/22 30; g61 7/22 29; g61 8/8 30; g61 8/22 31; g61 12/22 29; w59 675-676; g57 4/8 20; g55 1/8 4-8; g55 3/8 16; g53 10/8 24; w52 452; g40 6/12 12-13
membership: w80 10/1 25; g80 8/8 30; w78 3/1 22-23; hs 139; w75 323; sl 206; g75 6/8 30; w74 614; hu 8; g74 7/8 29; g74 8/8 30; w73 612; w73 688-689; dy 6; g73 9/22 3; pm 257; g72 10/22 29; g71 5/8 3; g71 11/8 30; w70 748; g67 2/8 30-31; g65 4/8 30; g65 8/22 30; w64 295, 334-335; g64 4/22 4-6, 11, 31; g64 8/22 29-30; g64 12/8 29-30; w63 295; g63 2/8 8; g63 2/22 30; g63 4/8 5, 7; g63 5/8 30; g63 7/22 5; w62 453; g62 1/8 29; g62 5/22 5-8; w61 70, 367; g61 7/8 30; g61 10/8 4-5; w60 579-580, 643; g60 8/8 29-30; g60 11/22 30; g60 12/8 29-30; w59 79; g59 9/8 3; w58 651, 696; w57 11; g57 6/22 28; g56 1/8 24; g56 4/8 16; g55 5/22 3-4; g55 10/22 3; g53 5/22 16; w52 420-423; g52 10/8 21-23; g52 11/8 13-17; g49 8/8 24; g49 12/8 17; w47 282; w40 51; g38 8/24 28-29; g36 5/20 516-517; g31 12/23 184; w30 202-205; g30 4/16 471-472
membership tax: w75 364
mergers: g72 3/8 16; g72 7/22 30; g70 4/8 30; g70 6/8 30; g68 2/22 4; g67 1/8 30; g67 12/22 29; g66 6/22 29; g65 4/22 5-6; g64 8/8 9-10
not preaching good news: w73 743-744; g73 9/22 4-6
programs: g76 2/22 30; w73 742-744; g73 9/8 29; w72 509; g72 4/8 22; w71 643-644; g71 3/8 29; g70 4/22 11-12; g70 6/8 31; g70 8/22 30; g69 10/22 31; g69 12/22 30; g68 4/8 29; g67 8/8 8-11; g67 12/22 30; g66 6/8 30
removing name from membership rolls: yb74 86, 248; km 6/66 3
striptease dancer program: g75 6/22 30-31
class distinctions: ka 375-378; g73 5/8 29; g71 7/22 9; w70 582; g69 10/8 16; g67 1/22 30; w64 261-264; g64 4/22 14-15; w63 18-19, 141-146; yb63 24-26; g63 6/22 29; g62 4/22 24; g62 5/22 29; g61 3/8 12; g61 10/8 30; w59 555-558; g56 9/22 25-26; cy 10; w53 409-410; rm 274-275; g51 9/8 25-26; g38 3/23 29
clergy: w79 8/1 9-21; w79 8/15 26-27; w78 1/1 9; w78 1/15 26-28; g76 2/22 30; g76 4/8 30; w75 201-204; yb74 35-36, 40; ka 374-384; g73 2/22 29; g73 9/22 3-4; w72 6-7, 214, 380, 453, 760; yb72 5-6; g72 1/8 30-31; g72 4/8 21-24, 30; g72 5/8 9-12; g72 8/8 30; g72 11/8 29; g72 12/8 29; w71 329-330; w71 484; w71 675-676; w71 739-740; g71 4/8 29; g71 7/22 4-9; g71 8/8 24-26; g71 8/22 13-14; g71 11/22 9-12; g71 12/22 30; w70 70-71, 79-80, 84-86, 263-264, 391-392; g70 1/8 3-4, 30; g70 2/22 29-31; g70 6/8 20; g70 6/22 23, 30; g70 7/8 29-30; is 163-172; yb69 105; g69 1/22 13-15, 29; g69 4/8 29, 31; g69 4/22 4-9, 12-17, 26, 28, 30-31; g69 5/8 29-31; g69 5/22 16-18, 29-31; g69 7/8 30-31; g69 10/22 29; g69 11/8 6, 29-31; w68 3-4, 483-487; g68 2/8 25; g68 2/22 3-6, 23-26; g68 3/8 29-30; g68 3/22 30; g68 6/8 30-31; g68 6/22 29-30; g68 8/22 5-7; g68 9/8 29-30; g68 11/8 29-30; g68 11/22 21-24; g68 12/22 23-25, 30; w67 13-16, 18-20, 37, 51-52, 69, 88, 183, 212-214, 421-422, 571; yb67 20-25, 28-31; g67 3/8 26; g67 4/22 30; g67 5/8 29-30; g67 5/22 17, 30; g67 6/8 29; g67 6/22 8; g67 7/22 5, 8-14, 29-30; g67 8/8 21-22; g67 9/22 31; g67 10/8 30; g67 11/8 29; g67 11/22 11; w66 72-74, 554-557, 560-570, 591, 643-648, 657, 678-679; g66 5/8 8-11; g66 9/8 3-4, 17-20; g66 9/22 3-4; g66 11/8 30; g66 11/22 4, 29; w65 142-143; g65 5/22 14-16; w64 334-335, 390-391, 617; g64 4/22 11, 30-31; g64 7/8 6-8; g64 8/22 5, 8; g64 11/8 21-24, 30; w63 141-146; g63 3/8 7, 30; w62 153-156, 666; g62 1/8 29; g62 3/22 6-8; g62 4/22 22-23; g62 6/22 30-31; g62 7/22 25; g62 12/22 12, 30-31; ns 295-296, 303-312, 317-329; g61 4/22 30; g61 10/8 4-8, 10-11, 30; g60 11/22 30; w59 137-138; w58 357-359, 648; w56 291-292; g56 6/22 6, 30; sr55 28-29; g55 12/22 3-4; w53 466, 469, 561-562; g53 5/8 24; w52 148; g52 4/22 16; g52 5/8 4; g52 5/22 16; g52 11/22 28; g48 2/8 3-10; g45 1/3 17; g45 12/5 30-31; g43 9/1 3-10; rg 64, 120-127; g40 12/25 21-22; w39 185-187; g39 10/4 29-30; g38 5/18 26, 29; w37 382-383; g37 5/5 491; g35 8/14 724; g34 6/6 564; pp 150; g33 11/22 104-108; v-1 61-62; g30 12/10 164-168
attitude toward Bible: w82 10/1 8; g82 3/8 4-13
clergy-laity distinctions: w80 1/1 23; g76 9/8 27-28; w75 202
do not confuse Jesus with his ground crew (quote): w80 4/1 7
efforts to lure people to go to church: w83 7/1 4-5
faithlessness: g83 3/8 30
follow example of false prophet Hananiah: w79 11/1 26
follow example of false prophet Zedekiah: w76 664-665
support given Hitler: g85 12/22 5; g81 10/8 29; g71 12/8 3-4
we want to preach politics and to change politics (quote): g83 8/22 7
women: g78 5/8 22
communism: w73 707-708; g73 1/8 30; g73 4/8 4-16; g73 5/8 31; g72 4/22 3-5; w71 408; g71 1/8 29; w70 167; g70 2/22 30; g69 12/8 30; g68 4/22 25; w66 488; g66 9/8 30; g65 4/22 7; g65 7/8 9-12; g65 10/22 30; g64 6/22 9-11; g64 7/8 5-8; g64 8/22 7; w63 212; g63 3/22 30-31; g63 12/22 21-22; g62 1/8 30; g62 10/22 11; w61 72, 367, 657; ns 348-351; g61 10/8 18, 20; g61 11/22 31; g60 10/8 22-23, 31; g59 10/22 6; w58 612; g56 1/22 18-19; w55 355, 652; sr55 200; g55 3/22 6-7; g55 11/22 3-4; w52 35, 195-196; rm 313-322; w50 249; g50 3/8 8; g49 10/22 20; w48 133; g47 10/22 8-9; g43 1/20 13-16; g42 1/21 20-21; w35 325-326
comparable to congregation in Laodicea: hs 140-141
conduct: w82 2/1 5-7
Southern Baptist convention: g76 10/22 29
conquistadores: g84 10/22 16-19
Crusades: g72 4/22 12-13; g72 10/22 29; kj 104; is 174-175; g66 11/8 17-20
decline: g84 8/8 29-30; g83 3/22 31; g83 4/8 30; w82 8/1 23; g82 12/8 25-27; g81 6/8 21-23; w80 10/15 22-23; g80 2/22 16-20; w76 360; g76 6/22 29; w75 41; w75 631; g75 1/8 30-31; g75 4/8 24-26; g75 9/8 24-25; w74 556; w73 688-689; tp73 85-86; g73 1/8 29; g73 1/22 30; g73 2/22 3; g73 4/8 5-8, 11-16; g73 6/8 30-31; g73 9/8 4; w72 323, 340; g72 1/8 31; g72 2/8 29; g72 2/22 30; g72 3/22 29; g72 4/8 21-24, 30; g72 4/22 30; g72 5/22 30; g72 6/22 9-11, 29; g72 7/22 31; g72 8/8 30; g72 8/22 17-18; w71 329-330; w71 407-408; w71 472; w71 483-484; w71 739-740; kj 317-318; g71 1/8 29; g71 1/22 29; g71 2/8 30; g71 3/22 3, 31; g71 4/8 29-31; g71 5/8 3, 5, 31; g71 8/8 29; g71 9/22 9-12; g71 10/8 31; g71 11/8 30; g71 12/22 31; w70 241, 451-454; g70 1/8 30; g70 2/22 30; g70 3/8 31; g70 4/8 29; g70 4/22 3-7, 29-30; g70 5/22 29-31; g70 6/8 29; g70 6/22 29-30; g70 7/8 30; g70 8/8 31; g70 8/22 30-31; g70 11/22 29; g70 12/8 29, 31; g69 4/8 30; g69 4/22 3-5, 30-31; g69 7/22 31; g69 9/8 30; g69 9/22 29; g69 10/22 29; g69 11/8 30
Denmark:
philosopher Søren Kierkegaard decries: w59 561-564
denominations: bf 497; w59 525; w58 695-696; w57 721; w55 118; g54 1/8 12; w53 358-360; ta 345-356; g39 4/19 26
destruction: w84 7/1 11-12, 15-16, 18; w82 11/15 3, 5-7; w80 3/1 14, 17, 21, 23; w80 10/1 25; w79 8/1 9-21; w79 9/15 27; w79 12/1 22-28; w78 1/1 13-15; go 177-178; sl 231, 236, 240-241; w74 53-54; w74 318; w74 697-698; w74 719; w74 748-749; g74 4/8 19; w73 61; w73 93; w73 126; w73 136; ka 202-204, 312-313, 316, 394-396; g73 12/8 19-20; w72 45, 51-52, 326, 357-358, 392-394, 420-422, 472-473, 660, 764; w71 471-472; w70 722-724; g70 4/22 23-24; fm 49; g69 4/22 18-19, 28; g68 2/22 6-7; w64 237-239; w63 102; bf 559; w62 240; w61 725-726; ns 348-360, 367, 371; g61 10/8 23-24; w59 43, 46-47, 146-147; w57 95; w55 715; sr55 54-57, 192; nh 276, 290; w51 678; w50 287; ow 23; ci 335-342; w40 233; w39 41, 115-116; w37 92-94, 105, 276, 355-360, 368; w36 43; w31 263-264; v-1 69-70, 112-115, 335-337
attitude of surviving eyewitnesses: w80 3/1 17-18
by “disgusting thing”: w85 10/1 11-12
events following destruction: w80 3/1 23-24
notified of impending doom: w79 9/1 18-19
symbolic cooking pot (Jer 1:13): w77 760-763
unusual work (Isa 28:21): sl 335-338
“detestable things” (Eze 9:4): su 93-94, 96; kj 142-162, 165, 173
development: w84 12/1 6-8, 12-13
discussion: w84 7/1 8-13; w82 2/1 4-8; w79 8/1 9-21; w79 8/15 23-28; w79 9/1 18-23, 26-31
dishonesty: ts 109
disunity: g85 1/8 11; w84 6/1 31; g84 5/8 4-6; w83 9/15 5-9; w83 12/1 28; g74 8/22 8-12; g74 9/8 29; g74 12/8 14-15; w73 613; dy 6-7; g73 1/8 16-19; g72 1/22 30; g72 3/22 10-11; g72 4/8 21-22, 24, 30; g72 4/22 8, 13-17; g72 6/8 29; g72 6/22 9-10; g72 7/8 31; g72 7/22 30; g72 8/8 30; w71 297-298; w71 355-356; w71 407-408; w71 547-549; w71 643-644; g71 5/8 12-16; g71 6/22 16-19; g71 7/22 6-9, 29; g71 8/22 14; g71 9/8 27; g71 10/22 30; g71 11/8 30; g71 11/22 10-12; w70 515-518; yb70 104; g70 4/22 17-18, 29; g70 11/22 16-18; g69 1/8 29-31; g69 4/22 6; g69 5/22 16-19; g69 8/8 31; g69 9/8 5-8, 30; g68 2/22 23-26, 30; g68 3/8 30; g68 9/8 31; g68 11/22 21-24, 29; g68 12/8 24-26, 29-30; w67 588; g67 2/22 30; g67 6/22 30-31; g67 7/22 22; g65 2/8 27; g65 4/22 4-5, 7; g65 10/22 30; g65 12/22 13-14; w64 297-298; g64 4/22 19; bf 481-498; w62 237-239, 345-348; g62 8/22 30; w61 103, 345-348; g61 2/22 21-24; g61 5/8 30; g61 10/8 21-22; g61 12/22 30; w60 749-751, 757-758; g60 6/8 5-6; g60 6/22 6; w59 525; w56 199, 267; cy 9-11; g54 7/22 10-12; w53 357-364, 742; w52 548; w47 9, 163; w43 102; g35 9/25 829; w30 107-111
Britain: g85 6/22 14-16
efforts to unite: g84 5/8 3-6; g71 7/22 29; g69 3/8 30; g68 2/22 25; g68 3/8 30; g68 3/22 29; g68 5/8 31; g68 11/8 15; g67 5/8 27; g67 7/22 30; g67 9/8 29-30; g65 4/22 5-15, 30
donations to religion per year in United States: g80 5/8 15
Durant’s (Will) comment on: w78 11/1 24
early religious writers: w56 504; lg 101; w51 347; w50 454; w46 117-118; g44 3/15 25-27
ecumenism: w84 10/15 26
Edom’s counterpart: w83 11/15 27-28; sl 223-228
evangelists: g84 5/8 7-8; g74 12/8 12-15; w73 742-744
evolution theory: ce 185; g74 7/8 21-23; w72 586; w71 41, 46-51, 56; g68 4/22 13-14; g67 4/22 3-5; w63 55
exposed by—
newspaper writer Steve Whysall: w81 11/1 7
Witnesses: w79 8/1 9-21; yb75 228-229, 235
failure: w83 4/15 28; sm 10-11, 28-31; g83 5/8 29-30; w82 2/1 4-8; w82 6/1 15; g82 5/22 29-30; w81 3/1 28; w81 8/1 11; w81 8/15 18; w81 11/1 7; g81 1/22 13-14; g81 2/22 30; g81 6/8 22-23; w80 1/15 9; w80 4/1 7; w80 9/1 11; w80 11/15 10, 12-22; w79 3/15 28-29; w79 8/1 9-21; w79 8/15 24-28; w79 9/1 15, 18-23, 26-31; g79 4/8 3; w78 1/1 13-15; w78 12/15 15; w76 267; w75 355-358; w75 754; g75 1/8 4; g75 3/8 15; g75 6/22 31; w74 620-621; w74 656; hu 21; g74 2/8 29-30; g74 8/22 30; g74 9/8 29-30; w73 151-153; w73 483-484; w73 743-744; g73 2/22 29; g73 4/8 5-8, 11-16; g73 8/22 6; g73 9/8 3-7; w72 423-424, 639; w72 639; g72 1/8 30-31; g72 3/8 29, 31; g72 3/22 11; g72 9/8 30; w71 254; w71 419-422; w71 483-484; w71 548-549; g71 2/8 16-19, 30; g71 4/8 5; g71 5/8 3-6; g71 6/8 30; g71 8/22 30; g71 9/8 31; g71 10/22 29; g71 11/8 29-30; w70 27; w70 37, 39-40; w70 71-72, 241; w70 241, 454, 579-580; g70 1/8 30; g70 6/22 23; g70 8/22 30; g70 10/8 31; g70 11/8 29; w69 715, 717-718, 726-727; fm 109-110; is 175-179; g69 4/22 5; g69 5/22 16-17, 31; g69 6/8 30; g69 6/22 30-31; g69 7/22 15-16; g69 9/8 30; g69 9/22 31; g69 10/8 6-7; g69 11/8 29-30; g69 11/22 30; w68 3-4, 285, 462-465, 483, 647-648; g68 1/8 24; g68 2/8 31; g68 2/22 29-30; g68 3/22 4-7, 30-31; g68 4/22 25; g68 5/8 30; g68 5/22 30; g68 9/22 7; g68 10/8 11, 15; g68 11/8 13-15; g68 12/22 30; w67 235; g67 1/22 30; g67 2/22 30; g67 3/22 20; g67 5/8 16; g67 7/22 31; g67 8/22 30; g67 11/22 11, 17-20; g67 12/22 30; g66 5/8 30-31; g66 12/8 30-31; g65 1/22 30; g65 2/8 30; g65 3/8 30-31; g65 4/22 7, 15, 30; g65 5/22 13-16, 30; g65 6/8 30-31; g65 10/8 21-22; g65 12/22 13-16; w64 69, 234-235, 237-238, 261-263, 275-276, 294-298, 334-335, 390-391, 431, 617; g64 4/22 4-6, 10-11, 20, 30-31; g64 5/8 18; g64 7/8 15, 26; g64 8/8 8-12; g64 8/22 5-6, 8, 30; g64 10/8 16; g64 11/8 30; g64 11/22 30; g64 12/8 29-30; w63 148, 222, 490, 727; bf 559; yb63 19-20; g63 1/8 30; g63 2/8 5-8; g63 3/8 31; g63 4/8 5-7; g63 4/22 30; g63 7/22 6, 30; g63 8/22 31; g63 9/8 30; g63 12/22 20-22; w62 228-240, 453-455, 584; g62 1/8 30; g62 6/22 30; g62 10/22 31; g62 11/22 30; g62 12/8 15; w61 71, 349, 367, 374, 406, 456, 594-595; g61 1/8 7; g61 3/8 26; g61 4/22 28, 30-31; g61 6/8 30; g61 7/8 29-30; g61 10/8 4-5, 9-11, 14, 18-20, 30-31; g61 11/8 5-8
cause of agnosticism: g84 3/8 8-9
Nigeria: g84 11/22 25-27
personal morality: g84 1/8 8-10
to heal breakdown: w79 8/1 18-21
war: w84 4/1 9; g84 1/8 10-11; g84 5/8 5-6
with regard to Nazi era: g85 6/8 8-10; g77 2/22 29
financial problems: g71 1/22 30; g71 2/8 30; g71 3/8 29; g71 3/22 31
Guatemala: g77 1/22 20-24
“holy place”: w82 9/15 19-21; w82 11/15 5-7; w77 44; w76 30; w75 742-744
hypocrisy: w80 11/15 13-16; w74 263; g73 2/22 7-8; w71 549; kj 199-200; is 170-172; g69 5/22 30; g68 1/22 8; w67 373; w66 74; g64 3/22 5-7; w59 561-564; w58 358; g56 5/22 3-4; bn 10-17; g48 7/22 4-5; g37 5/5 490; g35 7/31 689-690; v-1 324-331; g30 10/1 26-30
idolatry: w85 10/1 11; w84 12/15 7; w74 459; g73 1/8 27-28; yb72 112-113; g72 7/22 23; kj 103, 119, 134, 146, 156-161; yb70 209; g69 1/8 27; g68 4/22 17-19; g67 3/8 7, 26; g67 7/8 21-22; g64 5/22 30; w63 53-56; g63 8/22 5-10
immorality: w81 11/1 3-4; w79 9/1 27-28
influence waning: g84 8/8 29-30; g81 8/8 31; w75 41; w75 200; w75 323-324; w75 631; w75 684; g74 12/22 8-9; g73 6/8 30; g72 4/8 21; g72 9/22 29; g71 1/22 30; g71 2/22 5-6; g71 4/8 30-31; g71 10/22 29; g70 2/8 23; g70 7/22 13-15; g70 8/8 30; g69 4/22 17, 30-31; g69 5/22 29; g68 2/22 3-6; g68 7/8 31; g68 10/8 30; g68 11/22 30; g68 12/22 23-24
Jonestown tragedy: w79 5/15 3-6
judgment: w84 7/1 11-12; w79 8/1 9-21; w78 1/1 13-15; w73 93; w61 724-725; ns 348-350; w55 695-696; sr55 165-166, 190, 208-210; w52 341-350; w51 603-604; rm 324-326; w47 199-202; w45 260; rg 137; w39 196-197; w37 205-206; pp 266-268; v-1 64-65, 319-346; w30 361-362
against false prophets of: w79 11/1 23-29
proclamation of doom: w84 7/1 8-13
laity: w75 202; g74 12/8 14-15; g67 8/8 30-31; w66 554; g66 10/22 31; g64 4/22 4-6; w63 141-146; w62 200; g61 10/8 5, 30; w57 648; w56 447; g56 9/22 25; g51 9/8 25-26
League of Nations: w85 10/1 10-11; w79 7/1 6-7; w72 188-189, 197; w72 656; w71 560; kj 60-61, 73; fm 345; w66 499-500; bf 533, 580-584; g62 10/8 16; w61 630-631; ns 320, 322, 326; w59 142-143, 573-574, 597-598; yw 206-210; g54 7/8 9-10; nh 274-275, 279; g38 5/4 29; g38 9/21 28; g32 12/21 167
“love of the greater number will cool off” (Mt 24:12): w84 10/1 31
map of centers of apostate Christianity: w83 9/15 6
map of centers of European and Eastern religions: bf 501
meaning of term: w71 629; w70 713; is 162; w66 277; w62 229; cy 3; w42 20; w36 31; gd 35; lb 49
as used in Watch Tower publications: w81 8/1 31
membership: w83 9/15 5; ka 392; w71 8; kj 317; yb71 5; w69 713, 728; fm 217; w66 657; g66 2/8 3; g66 3/8 25; w65 198, 335, 657; w64 234; g64 8/22 5; w62 229, 620; tc 20; w61 585; g61 11/8 5; w60 749
methods of conversion: g82 7/22 16-19; w75 254
Mexico: w77 471; g77 12/22 25-26
military service: g65 9/22 15
missionaries of: g75 9/22 21; w74 677
money raising: w83 6/1 11; w82 3/1 10; g76 11/22 30; w75 263; g75 9/8 25-26; tp73 31-32; w72 419-420; w71 505-506; w71 709; g71 8/22 13-14; w70 99-100; g70 2/8 21-23; g70 5/22 30; g70 7/22 30; yb69 152; g69 3/8 29; g69 3/22 9-11; g69 4/22 9; g69 6/22 30; g69 7/8 3-4; g68 1/22 5-6; g68 6/8 30; g67 2/8 9-12; g67 10/22 21-24, 30; g65 1/8 20; w63 277, 645-648; g63 10/22 31; w62 278; g62 4/22 23-24, 30; g62 11/8 20; w61 277, 583; g61 4/22 30; g61 5/22 29; g61 12/22 29; w60 675-676; w57 31, 241-242; g57 9/22 24; w56 459; w55 167, 381-382, 611, 656; g55 2/8 12, 19; g55 4/22 25; w54 262-263; w53 709-712; w52 282; g52 9/8 12; g49 8/22 26-27; g49 12/22 3-5; g46 7/31 20-21; g44 5/24 9-14; g43 9/1 5-6; g40 6/12 14; w36 24; g36 1/15 237-238; g36 7/1 620-623; g31 10/14 20; g30 9/17 827
morals: w84 5/1 11; g84 1/8 8-10; g84 5/22 29; w74 14; w74 100-101; w74 562; w74 592; po 170-171; w73 355-356; tp73 28-32; g73 9/8 5, 7; w72 100; g72 3/8 29; g72 3/22 4; g72 4/8 22-23; g72 4/22 18-20, 30; g72 9/22 29; w71 451-452; w71 628; g71 5/8 29; g71 5/22 7; g71 7/22 4-5, 9-10; g71 10/22 30; g71 11/8 30; w70 391-392, 548; g70 2/8 30; g70 6/8 31; g70 8/8 9-10; w69 12; is 162; yb69 17; g69 4/8 29; g69 4/22 30; g69 7/22 14-15; g68 3/22 6; g68 4/22 15-18; g68 7/8 30; g68 11/8 31; g67 7/8 30; g67 7/22 5, 30; g67 9/8 20-21; w66 646; g66 5/8 8-11; g65 4/22 13-14, 30; g65 7/8 30-31; w64 275, 431; g64 10/8 12-16; w63 582-584; g63 3/8 30-31; g63 4/8 5-7; g63 5/8 30; g63 7/22 7; g62 3/22 5-8; g62 4/22 25; g62 6/22 7; w61 456; g61 4/22 30; g61 10/8 20; g61 11/8 7; g60 2/22 3; w58 4, 203, 252-253, 383, 543; g55 5/22 3-4; rw 13-14; g44 11/22 14-15
Nazism: g85 6/8 8-10; w78 4/1 7; g77 2/22 29; g75 7/8 30
not seeking “great things” during last days of: w80 3/1 21-22
number of denominations and sects: g84 1/8 3
pagan origin of doctrines and practices: w81 1/15 30; kc 90-94; tr 141-149; g80 4/22 20; g78 7/22 15; g77 4/8 21; w75 55-56; w74 490-491; w74 740; ts 43-45, 95-96; g74 2/8 28; g74 12/22 4; g73 3/8 5-8; w72 63; w70 299-300; g70 7/22 21-23; g70 12/8 3-5; g69 5/8 4-7; g68 2/8 23; g68 8/8 11; g68 12/8 4-6, 28; qm 286-287; g67 9/22 23; g67 12/8 4-5; g67 12/22 15; w66 279, 554-555; g66 2/8 30; g66 8/22 27; w65 218; w64 196; g64 4/22 12-16, 30; g64 6/8 10; g64 7/22 8, 10-11; g64 11/8 11; g64 12/22 6-7; g63 6/22 24; w61 104, 552; qm55 286-287
“good rains” ritual in Greece: g85 5/22 20
Greek philosophy: w82 4/1 16-17; w78 5/15 25-27; g76 8/22 23-26
Trinity: w84 8/1 20-24
pagan practices allowed: g85 5/22 26-27; g83 8/22 16-19; yb73 142-143, 206, 214; g72 2/22 30; g72 6/8 23; g71 7/22 29; g71 8/22 15-16; g71 9/22 30-31; g71 12/8 25-26
ancestor worship: g85 7/22 22-23
Bolivia: g77 3/22 21-22; g77 7/8 13-15
edict of Pope Gregory the Great: w84 4/1 9
Guatemala: g77 1/22 20-24
Mexico: w77 471; g77 12/22 25-26
Papua New Guinea: w84 9/15 21
Philippines: w84 9/15 21
witch doctors: g85 7/22 22-23
Pallottine priests:
money raising: w76 552
pictured by—
Ahab’s house: w76 664; sr55 278-279; bg 35-36; v-3 56
bad figs (Jer 24:2): w79 9/15 20; w79 12/15 22
Ephraim: g63 1/8 5-6; w61 713
Israel: w80 11/15 13, 16-17; w79 8/1 9-21; w77 754; w76 184; w73 149-150; w73 165-166; w72 199; kj 67-72, 85, 90-92, 122, 130, 199-202, 216-217; w66 274; ns 295, 297; g61 10/8 23; w58 697; sr55 52-59, 155-158; w51 646; rw 10-12; w43 54; w42 6, 23; g42 1/21 16; w37 351; ch 80; w35 85, 324; wn 43; w34 163; jh 12; bg 34-35; w33 259
Jericho: w69 593; w45 60; w39 41, 99, 107-108
Jerusalem: w83 3/15 19; w82 9/15 19; w82 10/1 27; w80 3/1 14, 23; w79 9/15 27; w78 1/15 31-32; w77 761; w74 717-718; w74 749; po 173; ka 304-305, 395; w72 45, 324-326, 472-473, 675-679, 764; kj 99, 111-113, 146, 161-162, 173, 175-176, 189-190, 210, 216, 238, 268-271, 277-278, 286, 343, 359; w70 50, 714, 720, 724; w69 758-759; fm 47, 49; w68 749; w62 234; g61 10/8 23-24; w59 619; gs 17; sr55 84, 192; w51 646; w50 22; w47 12; w46 366-367; tf 342; w42 19, 35, 87; w40 117, 134, 260; rg 111-112; w39 3, 182-183; w37 351; w36 316; w33 133; v-2 14; w31 259, 261; v-1 187-193, 202, 252-253
Jezreel: w76 150-152, 155-157
Judah: w81 8/15 23-24; w63 102; w50 22; w40 148; w39 188
Lo-ammi: w76 154-156
Lo-ruhamah: w76 151-154, 156
man without marriage garment: w74 696-699
Mount Seirites: w84 7/1 14, 18
Oholah and Oholibah: w73 92-93; kj 245
Philistines: w68 152-153; w67 106
Samaria and ten-tribe kingdom of Israel: w76 42-43
Uzziah: w66 500-501, 757-758; w65 396; bf 533
pilgrimages: g69 8/22 30
political activity: w75 203-204; w75 357; w74 614-615; w74 677-679; hu 8-9; w73 165-166; w73 675-676; ka 250, 381-382, 384; g73 1/22 29; g73 5/22 24; g73 6/8 16-19, 23-25; g73 9/8 6-7; g73 11/8 29; g73 12/8 16-19, 29; w72 340, 366-367, 573-574; yb72 142-143; g72 2/22 30; g72 3/8 19; g72 4/22 3-5, 14-17, 30; g72 6/22 9-10, 24-26; g72 7/8 31; w71 420; w71 644; w71 740; kj 152-153, 296-298; g71 1/8 29; g71 3/8 30; g71 5/8 3-4; g71 7/22 6-8; g71 8/22 29; g71 12/8 3-4; w70 198-199; yb70 276; g70 2/22 29-30; g70 4/22 19-20, 25, 30; g70 5/22 30; g70 9/22 30; g70 10/22 29-30; g69 4/22 6-7, 31; g69 5/22 30; g68 1/8 30; g68 1/22 6-7; g68 2/22 5-6; g68 4/22 21; g68 5/22 30-31; w67 88, 90, 502; g67 5/8 19, 23; g67 12/8 30; w66 647; li 319; g66 8/8 13-16; g66 9/22 3; g65 4/22 31; g64 7/8 6-8; g63 6/8 29
history: w85 8/1 3-7
talk by Jim Branch, “Has Religion Gone Too Far?”: w81 2/15 10
prayers: g74 1/8 10; g70 6/8 30-31; g68 5/8 30; w64 559
proselytism: w62 348
Reformation: w72 199; yb72 126; kj 69
religious fasting: w80 11/15 14-15
religious instruction in schools: g60 10/8 17-20; w53 195-196; g52 4/8 3-4; g52 8/8 5-9; g50 1/22 19; g46 1/16 25-27; g43 2/17 24-27; g42 6/10 11; g41 11/12 3-8; g40 10/30 19
religious programs on television: g84 4/22 30
religious “renewal”: w84 10/15 3-7
little effect on personal morality: w85 2/15 26
seminaries: w78 1/15 27
sermons: w79 8/1 19; g73 1/22 30; w72 366; g72 5/8 29; w71 408; w71 643; w70 71; g70 8/8 30; g69 11/8 29; g66 6/8 30; g65 2/22 30; g65 3/22 31; g65 8/8 29; w64 99; g64 3/8 29; g63 3/22 29; w62 453-454; g62 7/8 30; g62 8/8 30; g61 7/8 12; w60 400; g60 6/8 26; g59 8/22 15; w58 292-296, 349; w57 383; g55 9/22 24; g55 10/22 3; w54 262; g54 1/22 11; w53 68
spiritual deficiency: g81 2/8 31
social activities: g70 6/8 31; g69 4/22 30; w68 484-485; g67 10/22 23-24; g65 5/22 14; g65 6/8 30-31; g65 7/22 5; w64 295; g64 4/22 5-6, 11; g64 7/8 30-31; g64 11/8 21-24; w63 645; g63 2/8 6; g62 1/22 31; g62 6/8 31; g61 7/8 12; g61 10/8 4-5; g60 6/8 12; w59 294; g59 9/8 3-4; w58 518; w57 510; g55 10/22 7; g35 8/14 723; g34 3/14 369
Soviet Union: w85 8/1 3; g73 5/22 24; w66 281
becomes part of: g64 3/8 6-7
spiritism: g80 11/8 29-30; w78 1/15 26; yb72 113-114; g71 7/8 17
spiritual condition: w84 1/1 14; w80 11/15 13-16, 18-22; w79 8/1 9-21; sl 12-13; w74 756-760; w73 136, 146; w73 748; w72 6-7, 357; yb72 5-7; w71 548-549, 553; w70 9, 16; yb70 5, 17-18; w67 19; yb67 29-30; w66 195, 560-561, 563; g65 5/22 14-15, 30; g65 7/8 30-31; w64 56, 295-296; g64 1/8 7; g64 3/8 3-4, 30; g64 8/8 8-12; g64 8/22 5-6, 8; g64 10/8 14-15; g64 11/22 30; w63 7-8, 11-12; bf 543; yb63 5-7, 12-14; g63 2/8 31; g63 7/22 6; g63 11/8 30; w62 374; g62 1/22 30; g62 3/22 5-8; g62 5/22 8; g62 6/22 27; w61 35, 349, 711; g61 4/22 3, 28; g61 10/8 4-8, 11-14, 18-20, 30-31; w60 40, 420, 511, 616, 643-644, 648; g60 9/8 3-4; g60 11/8 5-7; g60 12/22 5-8; w59 9-10, 52-56, 602; g59 4/22 16-17; g59 5/8 3; w58 37-40, 163-164, 611-612; w57 241-244, 259-260, 343-344; g57 4/22 13-15; g57 6/22 19; g56 7/8 5; w55 323-324; g55 8/22 7; w54 3, 99-101, 368; w53 259-260, 649-652, 745; w52 102, 579; w51 304-305; g51 8/22 25; g48 7/22 3-12; w43 52; rg 132-162; g40 8/7 25-26; w39 195-204, 334-335; w38 367-368; w37 381-382; g36 5/20 515-528; w35 203, 350-351; vn 34; g32 11/23 118; v-1 170, 187-203
Sunday:
how observed: w80 11/15 19-20
Sunday schools: g81 3/22 29; w74 555; w72 340; w71 484; g70 9/22 19-26; w69 734; g69 4/22 23, 25; g68 5/8 31; g67 2/22 5-9; g66 2/8 6; g66 9/8 30; g66 10/22 8; g65 2/22 31; g65 4/22 13; w64 335; g64 8/8 10; g63 7/22 7; w62 458; g62 8/22 30; w61 174; g61 4/22 30; g60 11/22 30; jp 38-39; w58 428, 509; g57 5/22 5-8; g51 9/8 5; g46 7/17 12-15; ci 267-268; s 338; w38 116-119; g38 6/29 29; g38 11/2 29-30
surveys regarding—
beliefs: g70 2/22 31; g69 3/22 30; g69 4/22 16; g69 11/8 30-31; g62 1/8 29
faith: w71 675-676
how American Christians interpret and practice their faith: w84 6/1 31
religion: g70 2/8 23
whether Bible is free from legend or myth: is 165
survivors of Christendom’s fall: w79 12/1 24-28
symbolic representations: w75 589-604; sr55 58-59; w50 22; w48 128; w45 32, 60, 380-381; w43 292; w40 38, 148, 203, 295-298, 308; w39 5, 40, 101; s 74-75; w38 15, 53; w37 366; w36 131; w35 104; w34 88, 315, 326, 357; jh 86; g34 8/15 734-735; w33 307; pp 191; w32 228-229; v-3 65-76, 128; v-1 105, 175-178, 222, 295-296, 328-331; g31 1/7 252
tithing: g85 12/8 24; g67 10/22 21-22; w63 647; g63 8/8 3; g61 2/8 30
use of television: g70 8/8 30; g65 2/22 29
violence: w81 11/1 7; w75 294; w72 391, 394; g72 4/22 17; w71 420; w71 740; g71 2/22 3-5, 30; g71 7/8 30; g70 2/22 4; g69 4/22 8; g69 7/22 15; g69 8/22 29; g68 9/22 25-26; g68 11/8 14-15; g68 12/8 25; g67 11/8 29; g67 12/8 29; g66 9/22 3
war: g85 12/22 3-7; g83 5/8 29-30; w82 5/1 7; w79 8/1 13-14; g75 2/22 18-23; g75 5/8 9-12; g75 7/8 30; w74 217; w74 678-679; tp73 24-27; g73 5/8 23; g73 8/8 20; g73 10/8 23-24; w72 625-627, 748-749; pm 215-216, 307-308; dn 19-21; g72 2/22 30; g72 4/22 5-17; g72 6/8 26; g72 10/8 7, 14; g72 10/22 29; g72 12/8 29; w71 215; w71 463; w71 644, 647; kj 59-61, 78, 104-105, 152-153, 158, 258-259; g71 3/8 30; g71 6/22 16-19; g71 8/22 30; g71 9/8 31; g71 11/8 30; g70 2/22 30; g70 4/22 30; w69 529; fm 159-160; is 174-178; g69 4/22 7-8; g69 9/22 30; g69 10/8 16; w68 3, 187, 485-486, 599; g68 1/22 29; g68 2/22 25; g68 4/22 21-23, 30-31; g68 10/22 30-31; w67 299, 500, 759; g67 2/8 31; g67 4/8 29; g67 7/22 13; g67 8/8 5; w66 757-758; li 282; g66 4/22 29-30; g66 11/8 17-20; g66 12/8 10-11; g65 4/22 15, 31; g65 11/22 13-14; w64 295, 483, 623; pw 8; g64 3/22 5-6; g64 7/8 7; g64 9/22 11; g64 10/8 15-16; w63 202, 222; bf 502-503; w62 237-239, 454; g62 4/22 24-25, 30; g62 6/8 29; w61 71; g61 1/8 7; g61 4/22 28; g61 10/8 15-16; w60 242; w59 445; g59 1/8 20-23; w58 75, 99, 349, 612; w57 495, 712; g57 4/22 15; w55 495; sr55 28-29; w54 199; w51 132-135; rm 158-159; w50 439-440; rw 12; g43 7/7 14; g43 8/4 10-11; g40 12/25 21-22; g38 11/2 20; g37 5/5 493; g36 8/26 758; g35 4/10 441; g35 7/31 687; g34 8/15 712-713; g33 11/22 104-108; v-2 48-49; v-1 224-225
attitude of members: g85 12/22 4-6
book Black Jack Pershing: w74 217
clergy support: yb86 242-243; g85 12/22 4-5; g83 3/22 29; w82 2/1 5; w80 1/15 6; g78 12/22 9-10, 12; w74 217
history: w85 8/1 5-7
“just-unjust war” theory: g84 3/22 6; w83 9/15 30; w76 217-218; g76 1/8 30
world conference at Uppsala University, Sweden: g84 11/8 12-13
World Council of Churches: g84 5/8 4-6
warned: yb75 135-136, 138; w59 45-48, 103, 134-144, 395; w56 467-474; sr55 54-59; cy 3-14; w51 215-218, 351-352; wc 20-28; w42 183; rg 200-202; w39 185-188, 211-219, 227-236; v-3 262-264; v-1 38, 142-144, 272-282
wealth: ts 67-68; tp73 31-32; g73 3/22 29; w72 419-420; g72 2/22 30; g72 6/8 29; w71 419-420; kj 131-136; g71 1/22 30; g71 2/8 17; g71 6/8 30; g71 9/22 29; g70 5/22 31; g70 6/22 29; g70 7/8 29-30; g69 3/22 29; g68 4/22 23; g68 11/8 30; g67 2/8 9; g67 5/8 29; g67 10/22 21, 30; g66 1/8 6-7; g66 5/22 29-30; g65 2/22 31
women ministers: g78 5/8 22; g58 7/8 20; w57 616; g56 6/22 30; g55 12/22 3-4; g49 1/22 27-28; g45 12/5 30-31
world conversion: w74 615; hu 9; w70 746-748
World Council of Churches: g84 5/8 4-6; g84 8/8 25-27; tr 22; g76 6/22 16-19; w73 675; g73 12/8 18; g71 3/8 31; w70 27; w69 420; g69 4/22 5; g69 7/22 30; w68 581; g68 2/22 6; g68 9/8 30; g68 9/22 26; g68 11/8 13-15; w67 669; g67 4/8 27; g66 9/8 30; g66 9/22 3; g65 4/22 5, 8, 30; g65 6/22 31; g65 9/8 30; w64 297-298; w63 146, 390; bf 491; w62 345-348; g62 1/22 29; g60 8/22 6; g54 7/22 12; g54 8/8 5-12; g54 12/22 3-9, 25-26; g49 1/8 3-7; g49 9/8 29; g47 9/22 13-16
guerrilla support: w78 11/15 12
worldliness: w74 217; w74 631; g74 12/8 13-15; w73 613-615; dy 8-10; w72 625-627, 639; dn 19-22; g72 10/8 18; g67 11/22 11; g67 12/22 30; w66 659; g66 9/22 3; g65 10/8 23-24; w64 20; yb64 27-28; g64 4/22 17; g64 11/8 21-24; g64 12/8 29-30; g63 4/8 6; w62 236-237; g62 1/8 5-9; g62 3/8 30; g62 4/22 24-25; g62 6/8 31; w61 70, 712-713; g61 10/8 13-14; w60 89-90; g60 4/22 14; w59 138, 142-144, 147; w58 517-519; yw 284; w57 343-345; g57 10/8 25; w55 327-328; g55 8/8 9-12; w51 662-664; rm 297-299; g50 6/8 14-15; w48 219-221, 285-287; g48 7/22 4-11; g46 9/8 11; g44 4/26 8-12; w42 53; g41 6/25 21-27; g41 7/9 16; g41 7/23 26-27; g41 8/6 18-19; g41 8/20 26-27; w39 334-335; v-1 187-203, 303-319; g30 9/3 777-778
Quotations
20th-century Christianity has lost stringent note: w57 344; w53 300
2nd century witnessed the emergence of a distinction between clergy and laity: g76 9/8 27
abandoned Christianity for patriotism: w69 529
absence of persecution causes weakness: g50 1/8 19
abundantly fed but not well fed: w59 467
a Christianity both unauthentic and irrelevant: w58 303
acquiescence of the churches sustained Third Reich: g75 7/8 30
admission to the church is by handshake: w61 70
advance of atheists due to church and clergy: w61 367; g61 10/8 20
after so many years telling the secular world what to do, the secular world will tell religion what to do: w81 2/15 10
a great portion of what is generally received as Christian truth is to be found in heathen religions: kc 91
all one in our theological apathy: g63 7/22 30
all the religions of the world have contributed to war: g82 3/22 3
among church members essential Christian belief unknown: w54 99
apostasy of churches like rejection of Christ by Jews: g71 1/8 29
apostasy of the organized church has increased: g40 2/21 11
ashamed of ourselves because of Jehovah’s Witnesses: w63 335; g61 10/8 31
associated with the rack, the stake, the massacre of women and children: w61 534
attempt to build Christian world failed: g64 4/22 10
attractive truths selected to form theology: g57 4/22 13
audience convinced religion unreal and invalid: g60 9/22 5
Augustine’s [‘just war’] perversion of Christianity was the greatest calamity that ever befell the faith: w83 9/15 30
average Christian tragically ignorant about his beliefs: w66 456
average church is conformed to the world: w58 519
average churchman is semipagan: g62 4/22 25
average member knows little about his faith: w73 744
because of clergy’s faithlessness, Christians do not know what God demands: w58 294
belief in Satan superstition: g52 1/8 25
belies Christianity: w58 207
better off if all churches were burned down: g62 6/22 30
Bible not being read much: w62 304
Bible rejectors: g61 10/8 6
biggest task the church faces today is converting its own members: w60 616
Bishops have supported all wars: g78 12/22 9
bloody and vicious wars are still being fought in the name of God: w78 4/15 3
boom in religion is spiritual aspirin: w57 452
boredom in religion today: g65 7/22 5
Buddhist values substituted for Christian: g62 5/8 29
can approve war and pacifism, monasteries and secular attitudes: w82 2/1 4
can’t think of a church I would cross the street to enter: w63 11-12; yb63 13
cast Bible aside to follow modern fashion: g72 3/8 29
Catholic and Protestant theologians, pastors, churchmen and statesmen welcomed the alliance with Hitler: g85 12/22 5
caught in purposelessness of our time: w64 617
cause of democracy is cause of church: w54 200
change wine into water—watering down religion: w64 69
children never heard of Ten Commandments: g56 3/8 8
Christianity as vacuum-packed as coffee: g62 6/8 31
Christianity a warring, blood-spilling religion: w59 445
Christianity has to be radically “born again” if it is to survive as a faith for the future: w83 4/15 28
Christianity is retreating rapidly: w80 10/15 22
Christianity must abandon claim to monopoly of way to salvation: g54 7/8 12; g47 9/8 11
Christianity neither vital nor vitalizing: g34 6/6 564
Christianity not seen in churches: g69 4/22 17
Christianity served up de-gutted, de-boned, sliced and boiled: w54 387
Christianity was corrupted by Paganism: w84 2/1 8
Christians became soldiers when they ceased to be Christians: w78 4/15 15
Christians conformed themselves to world: g64 4/22 20
Christians in name only: w61 243
Christians operate by tradition rather than headwork: g55 1/8 16
Christ survived despite the church: g65 10/22 30
Christ would condemn our materialism, nationalism, social castes and racial barriers: w61 349
Christ would not feel at home in churches: w70 71; w66 274; w61 349
church adopting a kind of modern worldliness: w58 519
church an outdated anachronism from another age: g67 11/22 11
church a pitiful spectacle when it must be supported by dances and card parties: g41 7/23 4
church a pleasant community activity: g64 4/22 6
church a relaxed holiday crowd: w54 368
church budgets may receive more attention than Bible: w54 368
church captivity a national tragedy: w57 29
church currently in state of decline: w72 323
church decaying: g48 12/22 16
church divided and rent asunder: w56 267
church empty of spiritual life: g31 2/18 324
churches an endangered species: w80 10/15 22
churches are hypocrites in that they seem to be accepting that conventional war is O.K. and nuclear war isn’t: w83 5/1 23
churches are in bondage to the war system: w82 5/1 7
churches are in the eye of a storm: w75 684
churches are no longer secure sanctuaries against moral confusion, theological ambiguity and family disintegration: w84 6/1 31
churches are pervaded by a new wave of moral turpitude: g82 5/22 29
churches are the finest blood-lust creators: g85 12/22 5; g76 1/22 23; lt-2-30 111
churches bear name of Christ and wage war with each other: g58 5/22 19
churches biggest confidence game in the country: w79 1/1 27
churches bless any war the leaders of the state decide to launch: g78 12/22 12
churches cannot curb adultery: w59 387
churches caricatures of what Christ intended: w59 574
churches cluttered with social activities: g65 7/22 5
churches do not require following Christ in his example as a condition of membership: w81 8/1 11
churches failed to supply moral leadership: g64 10/8 16
churches failing task of making Ireland Christian: g64 4/22 11
churches filled with half-believers: w58 272
churches have been enemies of reason in thought and of justice in social arrangements: g84 3/8 8-9
churches have glorified war: g72 4/22 10
churches have house-cleaning to do: g52 1/22 28
churches have justified and blessed almost every war in history: g83 6/22 29
churches have little time for faith: g79 7/22 20
churches have misunderstood message of their Founder: w58 296
churches live off fat of land: g59 8/22 15
churches losing prospective members to less respectable sects: w52 420
churches neglect the home visit: w75 759
churches not demand integrity and morality: g75 1/8 4; g74 9/8 5
churches not increasing in proportion to population: w59 295
churches not the salt of the earth: w61 72
churches serve mammon instead of God: w82 5/1 7
churches share responsibility for moral disease: g60 7/22 30
churches so fearful of saying wrong thing, they simply say nothing: w63 727
churches spread revolution in Africa: g77 2/22 30
churches support wars: g61 10/8 15
churches take cue from wrong textbook: w58 488
churches try to be Christian and secular at the same time: w58 518
churches war recruiting agencies: g73 6/8 17-18
churches weak, insipid: g59 6/22 26
churches world institutions: g35 1/30 281
churches worship at shrine of evolutionistic scientist: g64 4/22 9
church failed to provide spiritual leadership: g74 8/22 30
church fallen victim to philosophy: g64 4/22 10
church finest money-making institution: w52 422
church follows flag: tp73 25; g72 4/22 10
churchgoers love Lord, hate each other: w58 484
churchgoing just another habit: g61 4/22 28
church groans for unity: cy 9
church has always justified war: g62 6/8 29
church has become a club: g68 12/22 30; w64 295
Church has become an inflated Tower of Babel: g81 2/22 30
church has become a please-the-crowd institution: w58 518; g58 1/8 7
church has become largely complacent and irrelevant: w64 295; g63 2/8 5
church has failed both God and man: w60 296
church has failed in its mission to men and society: w70 579-580
church has failed in so far as she has been disloyal to the truth: g41 2/5 25
church has forgotten God and spawned Bible rejectors: g52 5/8 3
church has no hope: g40 12/25 27
church imitates world forces: g60 2/8 19
church impregnated with errors of pagan philosophy: w34 189
church in Nigeria is the greatest money-spinning industry: g82 5/22 29
Church is becoming an excellent instrument for the continuing dechristianization of our people: g81 6/8 23
church is dying: g75 4/8 26
church is finished—dead: g62 3/22 5
church is like a rusty pipe: w60 511
church is most anemic and sickliest: g71 5/8 31
church leaders not sure whether Sermon on Mount in Old or New Testament: g63 1/22 5
church looked upon mostly as a nuisance: g61 10/8 19
church lost God: g31 2/18 324
church members have a remarkable level of ignorance of even the basic content features of Judaic-Christianity: g82 6/8 29-30
church more a field for evangelism than force for it: w72 423
church more a social center than a shrine: g56 3/22 8
church national park for preservation of culture: g64 4/22 5
church never got around to considering laymen: g63 6/22 29
church not for those who demand clarity and consistency: w80 11/1 27
church nothing more than a museum: g64 4/22 11
church not in twentieth century yet: g69 11/8 30
church not part of healing but part of disease: g60 7/22 11
church not reaching members with its arguments about basic values: g76 10/22 31
church not relevant to life: w61 709
church not so much light of world as reflector of lights which shine in world: w60 376
church of Christ growing smaller in our day: g60 8/8 29
church reluctant to discipline: g60 8/22 30
church represents a false god and conceals the true God: w52 296
church run not to serve human beings, but institutions: w64 69
church seems to have lost its sense of identity like someone suffering from amnesia: w80 10/15 22; g80 2/22 16
Church seems to stand for nothing much: g81 2/22 30
church self-warming and empty: g64 7/8 15
church showed more fear of man than of God: g63 4/8 7
church simply a venerable old monument: g61 10/8 20
church’s involvement in war is the shameful part of our history: g83 5/8 29-30
cities with worst corruption have no dearth of church buildings: w58 495
clergy admits responsible for selfishness: g73 8/22 6
clergy afraid of dealing faithfully with their hearers: w58 616
clergy-and-laity distinction not known to New Testament: w57 648
clergy becoming parasites: g60 7/22 11
clergy belong in ranks of Pharisees and Sadducees: g57 9/8 4
clergy blessing has kept war alive: g57 4/22 15
clergy cannot prove what they teach: g64 4/22 11
clergy cowboys or shepherds?: g59 3/22 6
clergy dare not proclaim God’s law as it is: g56 8/8 16
clergy deliberately chose evil: g61 4/22 28
clergy disbelief in Virgin Birth or Atonement: g54 7/8 6
clergy fail to furnish moral leadership: g62 7/22 25
clergy grossly negligent in devotion to spiritual tasks: w58 383
clergy have failed and laity have collapsed spiritually: g84 11/22 26
clergy have not fulfilled their true mission: w58 383
clergy have not proclaimed Christianity is living, vital thing: g52 5/8 3
clergy have sold us out: g71 6/8 30
clergy-laity distinction a false caste system which has been in place since the Middle Ages: w81 4/1 15
clergy little more than parish prostitute: is 172; g67 2/22 30
clergyman admits he is not a Christian: w66 648
clergymen wear blinkers: g64 4/22 30
clergy not authority on anything: g51 9/8 7
clergy preach “sloppy agape”: w82 6/15 30
clergy uninterested in religion: w62 155; g61 10/8 30
close or burn down churches: g69 4/22 30
communism born from Christian failure: rm 319
competitors for largest membership: w64 334
complete abandonment of New Testament doctrine: g62 4/22 24
compromised to gain acceptance: w60 296
consideration should be given to abolishing religion itself: w84 4/1 9
constant compromise with evil: tp73 25
construct magnificent buildings while neglecting spiritual: w61 470
darkness of ignorance: w63 216
dearth of initiative, enterprise, energy: w63 335
death of churches soon: g74 5/8 31
decay of religion is unmistakable: g79 7/22 20
decline in membership is a phenomenon of youth: g80 6/8 19
denied calling and failed by conforming to world: g74 12/8 13
dependence on God forgotten: g50 3/22 19
difficult to find those who can name four Gospels: g62 5/22 8
dilapidated church not knowing whom she is serving: g65 5/22 15
disappointment because of compromising with political and financial powers: w85 6/15 4
disbelief the norm: g61 4/22 28
disloyal to truth: g41 2/5 25
distance between professed faith and daily performance astronomical: g63 2/8 5
doing everything except preaching Gospel: g73 9/22 5
do not confuse Jesus with his ground crew: w80 4/1 7
downturns in church membership are unprecedented in American history: g80 6/8 19
easier to join churches than not to join: w60 281
entrance requirements like those of social club: g62 5/22 7
evangelists tend to covet money for personal pleasure: g84 5/8 8
ever-present danger the church may become insipid, standing for nothing: w58 125
existing churches have no power left: w60 583
failed to bring gospel to world: g59 10/22 24
failed to maintain spiritual standards: w58 517
fail to understand signs of times: w64 296
failure of churches cause of World War I: w62 238
failure of our rank-and-file to preach: g61 4/22 30
failure to practice Christianity: g60 11/22 30
false doctrines beyond numbering: w60 229
fashionable to belong to a church: g64 4/22 5
few of clergy could make defense of faith: g53 4/8 16
few secular political rivalries ever generate the bloodthirsty fervor of religious war: w84 4/1 9
few take Bible seriously: g61 10/8 6
flouted New Testament teaching on war: g61 4/22 28
follow the dollar instead of the cross: g63 5/22 30
food lacking spiritual vitamins: w59 467
fraud and dishonesty in American life prove the church has failed: w53 133
from the start, there were numerous varieties of Christianity which had little in common: w83 9/15 6-7
fun or entertainment being stressed: g63 2/8 6
generation biblically, theologically and morally illiterate: w58 38; g57 11/22 4; g56 10/22 4
give utmost backing to United Nations: w54 200
giving our children stones: w60 511
giving stones instead of bread: g64 10/8 15
goal to convert all “church members” into “Christians”: g61 10/8 19
God dead to masses of men: w54 453
God now tolerated rather than feared: g61 10/8 19
gone 2,000 different ways: g54 1/8 12
gospel that used to make our fathers shout puts us to sleep: g63 8/22 31
go to church because it’s good for business: g62 11/22 30
grateful to God for United Nations: g60 2/22 5
great religions of the world are dying: g62 3/22 5
growing contrast between what Christ taught us to be and the way we work it out: w81 8/15 18
guilty of the disintegration of the truth: w60 537
gulf between theology and the faith based upon the Bible: g61 10/8 6
hard pressed for single reason for attending church: g69 4/22 5
has become respectable and sterile: w60 296
has lost its faith: w63 148
has rejected forceful proselytizing: g64 4/22 30
have failed to witness: g62 4/22 24
hope of mankind fixed on United Nations: g54 7/8 12
how much does Jesus have in common with present church leaders?: w83 4/15 28
how pitiful is the sum total of our spiritual knowledge: w55 547
hungry sheep not being fed: g74 7/22 30
hypocrisy convenient: is 170; w53 264
if all the churches disappeared, would anybody care?: w75 631
if German Christians not weak, Hitler never come to power: nh 193
if Jesus were to return, he would be unable to recognize himself in their undertakings: w80 4/1 7
if the Church has nothing more than the world to offer, why go to the Church?: w82 2/1 7
ignorance of Bible among younger clergy horrifying: w50 264
ignorance of the Bible among clergy: g61 10/8 19
ignores teaching of Christ: w60 229; g58 6/22 7; w57 341; w55 324; rm 15; g51 9/8 6
I know no more than when I first started: w57 581
immorality is our fault: w58 38
immune to real Christianity: g33 8/16 730
incapable of maintaining internal discipline: w64 431
indebted to priests for becoming impious and immoral: g60 10/8 25
indistinguishable from a business: w74 556; g73 6/8 30
in estrangement from God our sin has its origin: w59 734
internal contradictions lead to defection: g68 1/22 6
in the little band of Jesus there was no division into clergy and laity: w57 648
in what sense can we apply name Christian to our national life: w51 324
Isaiah author of League of Nations: g38 9/21 28
I want to go to heaven but not today: w56 14
Jesus’ teachings buried under customary acquisitions: w70 71
Jesus would not be tolerated if he returned in flesh: g75 3/22 30
Jesus would recognize few traces of his philosophy in churches: w70 71; g62 4/22 23
Jesus would scarcely recognize own teachings: g60 4/22 15
Jesus would see Christians are not Christians any more: g75 8/22 29-30
joined in arousing belligerent passions of people: w69 529
just-unjust war theory never deterred a single war: g76 1/8 30
“just war” not accepted until the fourth century: w80 11/15 10
Kingdom insignificant to churches: w74 101
kingdom of Christ converted into a kingdom of this world: kc 90; w75 253
know more about baseball than Christianity: w62 176
lacking in knowledge and devotion: w61 709
lack spiritual leadership: g65 5/22 14
lack thinking bishops: g64 8/22 5
large part of world turned away from Christ because of church: w70 39
large proportion of Christians are apathetic and indifferent: w57 343
lay people are uninstructed in the faith: g61 10/8 30
leaders leave no place for God: g37 7/14 656
League of Nations political expression of God’s Kingdom: g85 10/8 7; jp 94; w58 630; yw 207; gr 13; g54 7/8 9-10; nh 8; tf 333-334; g38 10/19 9; g34 3/28 388; g30 12/10 175
League of Nations visible spirit of Christ: g54 7/8 10
like a dumb dog, old and toothless: w62 238
little in actual life style of members to distinguish us from non-Christian neighbors: w84 10/15 6
little to distinguish church member from nonmember: g63 4/8 7; w60 281; g56 12/22 5
lower entrance requirement than getting onto a bus: g62 5/22 6; w61 70
lukewarm Christianity: g64 11/22 30
made instrument that divides men: cy 9
made mess of telling about God: g52 4/22 3; g51 9/8 5
major cause of church’s decline—clergy: g73 2/22 29
majority of churchgoers want to be entertained: g57 11/22 20
majority of criminals identified with a church: g60 2/22 3
majority of Englishmen have no religion at all: w54 100
major obstacle to effective preaching is scandal of disunity: g85 6/22 18
makes man easygoing, pussyfooted and tolerant of everything: g61 10/8 4
man can build Kingdom on earth: g46 10/8 12
many agnostics, atheists and pagans in the pews: g62 5/22 6
many ministers feel lost: w62 155
many ministers present personal thoughts rather than preaching Word of God: g81 2/8 31
many of us hardly know what we believe: w57 342
many people simply do not find churches religious enough: w84 6/15 9
many wars precipitated in the name of religion: g82 3/22 3
many who profess Christianity hardly practice it: g71 11/8 29
membership too easy: g62 5/22 7; g59 4/22 16
members know nothing: g40 5/29 29
men are asking for bread—and getting stones: g70 2/8 30
minister relieved of earning livelihood: g51 3/8 24
ministers are Bible-starved: w56 711
ministers aren’t preaching or teaching gospel: g69 4/22 5
ministers’ Bible knowledge leaves much to be desired: g72 2/8 24
ministers deny the Bible: g62 4/22 22-23
ministers hate their jobs: w66 74; w62 155
ministers losing sight of objective by overinterest in salaries: w54 368
ministers spiritual cheerleaders: g73 7/22 30
ministers trying to please congregation: g60 7/22 11
minister unemployed in maintaining spiritual life: g60 7/22 11
modern world has to go back to first principles: w81 8/15 18
more than thirty years since I have listened to a minister attempt to explain the Kingdom: w80 1/15 9
most churches have lost spiritual part of religion: w78 11/1 24
most church people accept war as a normal instrument of public policy: w82 5/1 7
most ministers learn theology from disbelieving scholars: w79 1/1 27
most serious problem is that people do not really know who God is and what he requires: w80 7/15 10
most striking fact about churches today is emptiness of them: w57 764
mounting ignorance of contents of Bible: g71 4/8 30
much that masquerades as religion would shock St. Paul: w83 7/1 5
murder of six million Jews by baptized Christians: w75 294
nationalistic: g61 10/8 15
nearer to Christianity without parsons: g52 4/22 16
needs, not more popular, but more unpopular preaching: w58 606
needs not lottery but Holy Spirit: g65 1/8 20
never seen article which explains Bible: g69 2/22 31
ninety-nine per cent of religion should be scrapped: w60 229; g58 6/22 7; w55 324; rm 15
ninety per cent do not know beliefs: g56 6/22 6
no Christian army advancing: g72 9/8 30
no fire in hearts, only dying embers: w63 144
no longer distinguish believer from pagan: g63 3/22 29
no more room for God: g61 10/8 20
no preaching worth finding: g37 5/5 491
no ready answers to questions people ask: g64 8/8 8
not been well taught about religion: w54 454
not cracking down on immorality: w64 431
not doing what Christ ordered: g64 4/22 11
not expected to give up traditions: g60 6/8 6
not find much in average church that reminds them of Christ: w70 71
nothing has done more to discredit Christianity than its practice of taking a stand virtually indistinguishable from that of non-Christians on the practice of war: g84 1/8 11
nothing has more deterrent effect to belief than churches’ disunity: w52 548
nothing has tended more thoroughly to corrupt Christianity than the introduction into it of superstitions which are pagan themselves: kc 90-91
not know a Christian minister who believes virgin birth: w63 11; yb63 12-13
not know where to see vital Christianity: g61 10/8 20
not light of world: g60 2/8 19
not like early Christians: g61 3/8 26
not more loving or humane than those of other religions: g76 12/8 20
not much impact on human relations in Africa: g75 3/8 15
not much in church that reminds one of Christ: g62 12/8 15
not proclaimed Christianity as vital: g52 5/8 3
not read Scriptures enough: g64 4/22 31
often ministers who pray talk to people rather than to God: w54 623
one cannot but be struck by how much of the world’s trouble is rooted in religion: w84 4/1 9
only reason I go to church is because I am a minister: g61 10/8 4-5
opiate of the people: g62 11/22 30
organized religion is a failure: g37 7/14 656
originally no clergy-laity distinction: w56 447
our business as Christians to charter course of state: g53 3/22 26
our customary Christianity is Satan’s pet child: g71 3/22 4
pampers to rich and powerful even when corrupt: g71 10/22 29
partiality, tribalism and sectionalism are a great disease in our churches: g84 11/22 26
pastors lost in confusion and self-pity: g61 10/8 19
pastor who doesn’t believe in Bible’s miracles may still preach them: w79 1/1 27
people bargain with God: g60 9/22 7
people do not want to be men of God: g57 9/8 3
people know little about Bible: w62 319
people like me, but don’t love God: w57 342; w52 421
people toy at religion: g52 1/8 11
people very seldom Christian: w78 11/1 24
‘pewmonia’ threatening churchmen: g64 4/22 31
pious atheism practiced by theologians: g60 2/8 19
playing at being Christians: g57 10/8 3
poor sermons and dull worship services: w79 1/1 27
pray we be shown how grievously we have misrepresented God: w57 343
preach Christianity without Christ: g72 3/8 29
preachers interested in holding job rather than preaching: g48 7/22 11
preaching a mosaic of stories or personal anecdotes: w58 293
preaching rotten sermons defrauds laity: w77 77
priestcraft with all its ghastly forms of inhumanity perpetrated in the name of Diety: w84 3/1 6
priesthood eternal enemy of civil liberty: g57 6/22 24
priests have lost confidence of masses: g60 10/8 26
professed Christianity is not the religion of Christ: is 70-71
profound differences between Christianity of Nicaea and teaching of Jesus: w79 7/15 15; w63 13; yb63 17
Protestant groups leaving Christianity to Witnesses: w60 360
Protestantism exhausted: g36 5/20 527
Protestantism feeble: g44 2/2 19
Protestantism manifests greatest confusion since Babel: g61 5/8 30
Protestantism no longer rendezvous of dedicated people: g44 2/2 19
Protestantism puts conduct ahead of faith: w60 168
Protestantism will shrivel and die: w54 100
psychiatric gospel: g58 10/8 19
psychiatry doing more to save souls than churches: w60 296
psychology usurping theology’s throne in religion: g64 4/22 8
religion a curse, not a blessing: w60 229; g58 6/22 7; w57 341; rm 15; g51 9/8 6
religion—a nonreligious role: g73 7/22 30
religion a second-hand affair: w54 99
religion attracts, churches repel: w59 574
religion devoid of responsibility: w58 6
religion has become mere tradition: g64 4/22 8
religion has developed into a threat to human life: w82 6/15 30
religion helps make world a mess: g48 2/22 9
religion in our time has little kick in it: w57 344
religion is fashionable: g56 3/22 8
religion is not greatly affecting our lives: w78 4/15 4
religion is really a bad thing for man, does not bring peace, foments distrust, hatred and wars: g83 3/22 29
religion is still oil on the fire of all conflicts of the world: g84 5/8 6
religion man-centered, rather than God-centered: g63 2/8 7
religion morally flabby, socially irrelevant and politically subservient: g63 2/8 7
religion represents modernism and worldliness: g37 7/14 656
religion scarcely gives any offense: g52 5/8 5
religion something we accept socially: g64 11/8 30
religious Babylon has adopted the tricks of the Devil to run the church: g40 2/21 11
religious confusion unparalleled: g63 3/8 31
religious curve up, moral curve down: g61 4/22 28
religious devotion accompanied by lax morals: g51 9/8 8
religious illiteracy is shocking: g62 5/22 8
religious illiterates: g61 4/22 3
religious revival is over: g63 3/22 29
religious vacuum on a scale never seen before: w57 241
religious wars tend to be extra furious: g82 3/22 6
reluctant to discipline: g60 8/22 30
renounced idea of hell and lost belief in heaven: w53 144
requirements of the church are primarily external: w58 38
resolutions have a mind-and-heart-numbing force: w62 584
responsible for communism: g73 4/8 7; g61 10/8 20; g60 10/8 31; g60 11/8 5
return to religion has not produced moral fruitage: g62 6/22 7; g56 8/8 5
revival sweeping America isn’t genuine: w57 343
rocking horse sermon, moves but does not go on: g53 8/8 4
rolling leviathan of accumulated creeds: w53 364
Russian church seriously ill: g73 4/8 13-14
salt that has lost its savor and is fit for nothing: w59 734
Satan appears to be the only one on duty in our churches: g82 5/22 29
say we live in last days, actions prove we hope it isn’t so: w59 740
schoolchild knows more about mathematics than adult about Bible: g63 9/8 30
second-hand faith: g67 11/22 17
secular humanists have declared war on Christianity: w81 5/15 30
see faraway fields and fail to see mission field around us: g60 11/22 30
sermons develop sense of security that has strong sleep-inducing effect: w53 68
sermons not to offend: g59 8/22 15
sermons now seem to give people what they want instead of giving them what they ought to be saying: w84 3/15 26
sermons serve as sleeping pills: w60 400
sermon subjects too thin: w58 349
sermons—word game played on Sunday: g64 3/8 29
should emulate Witnesses: g55 6/22 24
sick church in a sick community: g71 9/8 31
sickest people in the world are running churches: g70 7/8 30
sick society measure of the failure of the church: g62 10/22 31
slaughter each other for material gain: w58 356
social convention devoid of responsibility: w58 6
some of clergy are apparently downright wicked: w57 29
something radically wrong in the Church of God at this day: w56 39
spawned a host of Bible rejectors: w57 343
spirit of lethargy our fault: g65 2/8 30
stationary Christianity means destruction: g57 9/8 15
statistically losing ground: g61 10/8 18
statistics important, not sincerity and integrity: w56 702
strains our credulity to believe churchmen could sponsor guerrillas: w78 11/15 12
strange caricature of the early church: g62 11/22 30
success or social prestige is their real faith: w60 188
Sunday school will become extinct: g81 3/22 29
sword of America is sword of Jesus: g33 11/22 107
teen-agers conspicuous by absence in church: w56 662
teen-agers leave church when leave Sunday school: g57 5/22 6
temptation regarding money has destroyed a lot of preachers: g84 5/8 8
theologically illiterate church: g62 4/22 23
theology has no integrity or standards of its own: g75 6/22 31
theology is nine parts Greek thought to one part Christian: g84 10/8 8; w76 652; w75 55-56; ts 43
there are no true prophets to sound our doom: w57 345
the true but unwitting group of Devil’s advocates are the clergy of the Churches themselves: g84 6/8 11
they want to go back to the good old days when religion ran the show: w81 2/15 10
tommyrot taught insults public intelligence and fosters contempt for the church: g69 4/22 5
too many men of science, too few men of God: cy 4
too much like the world: g64 12/8 29-30
tragedy of today is we have forgotten our dependence on God: g50 3/22 19
trouble with most parishes, nobody is really changed: w63 19; yb63 26
two altars, one for the dollar and another for God: w58 612
unavoidable that worship of Christians should become corrupted: qm 289; qm55 289
unfaithful to the spirit of Jesus: w58 39
United Nations Charter holds promise of ultimate establishment of Kingdom of God: g47 9/8 11
United Nations conference reflected dependence on God: g47 9/8 10
United Nations has role of salvation: g54 7/8 12
United Nations last hope for peace: w59 579
very foundations are crumbling: g72 9/22 29
voice of Jesus almost inaudible: g64 4/22 10
waning power of religion is reason life so stressful: w74 524
want faith that is an escape from life: g57 4/22 14
watered-down convictions: g64 4/22 8
weak witness to Christianity: w61 367
we are already in decay: w57 347
we are clever, yet in a mess: w54 548
we are witnessing the death of a socially and politically structured Christianity: w80 10/15 22
we constitute a visible denial of the work of the Holy Spirit: w83 4/15 14
we do not want Christ to come here yet: ph30 51
we don’t know what the Bible has to say: w58 112
we don’t take a stand unless we know direction wind is blowing: g72 4/22 9; w57 344
we drifted from Scriptural Christianity: g65 2/8 30
we failed: g60 10/8 31; g60 11/8 5
we have abandoned God: g60 2/8 17
we have been dishonest before God, neighbors and ourselves: w60 583
we have driven holy spirit from our church: g66 2/8 3
we have entered a long, long night and we’re not going to come out of it: w80 10/15 22
we have glorified war: w59 445
we have neither time nor strength to take gospel to the world: w60 511
we have stopped listening to God, though we keep up appearances: g79 4/8 3
we humbly confess that as Christians we have been unfaithful to the Lord: g84 11/8 12
we lie when we preach things we do not believe: g37 12/1 18
we live in a non-Christian world: w63 12; yb63 13
we may all be more pagan than we like to think: g71 5/22 7
we need to study God’s Word more: w65 379
we urge establishment of League of Nations: g38 10/19 9
we want to preach politics and to change politics: g83 8/22 7
when war pulpit is recruiting platform: g73 5/8 23
whirl of church activities is the church’s worst enemy: w57 8
who ever said the established churches are Christian?: w81 11/1 7
widespread ignorance of the Bible: g62 4/22 23
widespread religious illiteracy: w57 241
with one corner of our mouth we have praised Prince of Peace and with other have glorified war: g85 12/22 5; g78 12/22 9-10
world converted the church: g64 11/8 30
world laughing at us: w64 238
world loves us and hates us no longer: g64 4/22 20
worship-as-you-please fellowship: w58 551
worship false gods: g32 12/7 143; g32 12/21 168, 172
would sell scandal sheet, but no courage to peddle voice of God: g52 8/8 28