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Schlesinger argued that the Republic is strong enough to withstand reform, and that "even conservatism comes in time to cherish most of the reform it has so bitterly fought...
...face of the Communist challenge almost fifty nations which cherish freedom have drawn together in voluntary associations . . .We reject any thought that the cleavage we have described should be resolved by force. We shall never initiate violence. Moreover, we shall use our full influence to assure that Soviet efforts to inflame old antagonisms will not succeed in breaking the peace . . . Meanwhile, the society of free nations must retain the power needed to deter aggression. We recognize that such power should never serve as a means of national aggrandizement but only as an essential shield . . . We shall help ourselves and others...
Herberg sums up: "The familiar distinction between religion and secularism appears to be losing much of its meaning under present-day conditions. Both the 'religionists' and the 'secularists' cherish the same basic values and organize their lives on the same fundamental assumptions." True Christian or Jewish witness, Herberg points out, may be "much more difficult under these conditions than when faith has to contend with overt and avowed unbelief...
...spend their Sundays proclaiming themselves republicans and the rest of the week worshiping the Queen of England, who call themselves modest yet always talk about being the torchbearers of civilization ... who keep their hearts in France and their fortunes abroad . . . who say they love purity of line but cherish an affection for the Eiffel Tower . . . who loathe crossing a frontier without smuggling something just to be doing it but dislike not being legally en règle . . . and finally, who are delighted when one of their great men talks to them of their greatness, their great civilizing mission...
Churchgoers, in Astute's theology, exist to be pleased. "Let your church officials know where you stand on the points which they now cherish more highly than religious doctrines." Sermons, warns Astute, should always be comforting, never political, and preferably critical only of those "outside the fold...