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Present from behind the Iron Curtain was Czechoslovakia's Joseph Hromadka, wartime lecturer at Princeton and Dean of Prague's state-controlled Theological Faculty, who collaborates with the Communists. Dr. Hromadka listened as Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia said pointedly: "When in the considered and prayerful judgment of a church [its] freedom . . . is essentially abridged by state or society, it is the duty of the church to say no to the state and no to the society...
...does it work in Czechoslovakia? The Christian Century interviewed Dr. Hromadka during the international Protestant conferences at Lund, Sweden (TIME, Sept. 1), last week reported, in third-person paraphrase, Hromadka's answers to the question, as checked and approved by Hromadka himself. Excerpts...
Cooperation with the Communists: "When Hromadka declared [his] attitude . . . many of his colleagues in the Czech church considered it a false step. Some even questioned his integrity . . . But now most of this has changed. There are still those who disagree, but they do not question his integrity-only his judgment. An increasing number of the younger students have come to take this position...
...Religion of Marxists: "Religion, of course, they consider an ideology and an opiate. In all this there is much with which Hromadka believes Christians would have to agree ... We must confess that [religion] has often been an opiate, that it has carried along much of superstition and legend, that it has been made a tool of exploitation...
Relations with World Protestantism: "It was very encouraging to Hromadka . . . that he was permitted to come to Lund, which had not seemed at all a high probability. Nobody told 'him what to say, or even asked him what he intended...