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Like an adolescent going through the Decameron avidly picking out "the dirty parts" and missing all that makes it great literature, Mr. Blanshard seems to go through Catholic writing looking for juicy tidbits he can lift out between strategically placed quotation marks, that he may condemn the Church seemingly with her own statements. To anyone familiar with the contexts so used, to say nothing of the spirit of the Church, this device is amusing if contemptible; but to the naive or uninstructed it can be misleading to a degree prejudicial to justice...
...agree, too, that the MTA signs reading, "Take your problems to church this week--millions leave them there" is a soporific and sickening example of what religion as generally practiced has become (or should I say, always was to some people?) But this is not adequate reason to condemn religion. Even in the days of the prophets Amos, and Jeremiah there was the essentially amoral ritualism of the people in contrast to the exhalted ethical religions of these prophets. The point then is that Harvard might lead the way again, by having as its "chaplain" a man noted...
Last year Nehru condemned the North Korean attack on the Korean Republic, then refused to condemn the far larger attack by Communist China. Nehru seems to feel that there is a kind of quantitative morality about war: it is all right to fight a little war to stop a little aggression, but it is wrong to fight a bigger war to stop a bigger aggression. (This is the same kind of logic that considers one atom bomb morally wrong and ten "conventional" bombs morally all right...
...This is what the psychiatrist must say in every gesture, every act, every order, every word . . . Does it sound ungodly? And if it is misunderstood and criticized as wasteful, or as immorally permissive, the psychiatrist may comfort himself with the example of One who said, 'Neither do I condemn thee...
...American Catholic Philosophical Association drew a careful line between gambling and gambling: "Be it resolved that this association, while convinced that gambling is not in itself immoral, does hereby condemn gambling carried on in ways and conditions that are immoral; and the association also lends its support to properly conducted legal investigations that protect the basic rights of the individual while safeguarding the common good...