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...Secularism. Herberg cites a poll which asked U.S. citizens whether they obeyed the Biblical law of love toward a member of another religion (yes, 90%); of another race (yes, 80%); of a "political party that you think is dangerous" (no, 57%). "While the Jewish-Christian law of love is formally acknowledged, the truly operative factor is the value system embodied in the American Way of Life. Where the American Way of Life approves of love of one's fellow man, most Americans confidently assert that they practice such love; where the American Way of Life disapproves, the great mass...
...among the clergy. Hatred is un-Christian . . . Protestants have no alternative but to accept as realities the basic Catholic premises for Catholics (not for themselves). They must learn to live with them. At times this may require firmness, but not intolerance . . . The genius of Protestantism is the open mind." Jewish-Christian relations have not suffered the same deterioration as those be tween Catholics and Protestants, said Bernstein. But "underlying tensions" do manifest themselves. His advice to Jews: "Do not live in a fool's paradise. Do not take any satisfaction from the current Catholic-Protestant frictions ... A poisoned atmosphere...
...plight of the several Christian fraternities, was a bit shocked by the proposal. "The University," he said, "does not hate now and has never had a quota system." The matter was laid to rest and the group came up with its other proposals to obtain a "better" Jewish-Christian ratio--measures involving big publicity campaigns and more extensive interviews of candidates for admission...
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...
Rabbi Shulman of Chicago and the Reverend Sidney Lovett, Chaplain of Yale University, will speak at a discussion on Jewish-Christian relations slated for 7.45 o'clock tonight at Brooks House...