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| | TIME.com: Christians Behind the Curtain -- Mar. 20, 1950 -- Page 1 |
 | | The Hungarian Lutherans said they felt that it was better to continue as a congregation in being, rather than to court destruction by resisting the state. |
 | | The message suggested that Hungary's Communist government is God's judgment on the church for "worldliness." Western Lutherans, the Hungarians noted, should quit trying to prod their Hungarian brethren into more sturdy opposition to the Communists. |
 | | U.S. Lutherans, dissatisfied with what they consider the Hungarian church's lukewarm defense of Bishop Lajos Ordass, who is serving a two-year prison term for alleged improper registering of funds received from the U.S., have sent no aid to Hungary for the past two years. |
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