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...insist that since they have earned positions of responsibility, and are nominally, at least, in charge of the University, they should do everything they can to persuade students of the rightness of those ideals. They don't have to sacrifice scholarship to do this. Conflicting opinions--socialism, Marxism, atheism--all should be explained, and they should be explained by teachers who are primarily interested in pointing out the errors of such positions...
Misery & Evil. Anglican Sanders believes that Freud was most vulnerable-and most mistaken-in his dogged atheism. Religion, according to the -late father of psychoanalysis, was "the universal obsessional neurosis"; the Jewish-Christian concept of God was merely a projection of the child's relationship to his father. Assuming Freud was wrong in this one respect, what, asks Sanders, is left of the Christian faith? His answer: everything...
Aiken, rejecting "transcendental theism and "cracker-barrel atheism," called for a re-interpretation of Christian testaments as "poetic myths expressing the ideal of man." He felt that "all values derive from the satisfaction of the wants...
...Absolute atheism, writes Maritain, "deprives God and mankind of some potential saints, in making their attempts at heroic freedom a failure, and turning their effort to break with the world into a total and servile subservience to the world." Conversely, saints have been the greatest revolutionaries. Maritain contends that for centuries the world's temporal progress was fostered by the saints. It was only during the last hundred-odd years, when the results of the industrial revolution were bringing mankind more & more to social thinking and social action, that the saints dropped from the lead and the atheists took...
...Maritain sees it, the betrayal of Christianity has been done chiefly by those who are perhaps the worst atheists of all-the "practical" atheists who think of themselves as Christians. Absolute atheism is merely "a translation into crude and inescapable terms, a ruthless counterpart, an avenging mirror of the practical atheism of too many believers who do not actually believe . . . Decorative Faith is nowadays not enough . . . To believe in God must mean to live in such a manner that life cannot be lived if God does not exist...