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...desire, Dr. Soares answered "They won't go to church if we preach only dogmatism to them, nor will they be interested if we tell them they must keep their scientific and their religious worlds separate. Religion does not needed to oppose science. We do not believe, as the Modernist does, that God has given us in the Bible all the truth we need to know. I can enjoy the sincere, and beautifully phrased religious sayings of Mica, but I don't believe Mica when he says the world is flat. God is the great moral power working through humanity...
...view of the Modernist" he continued "is that the Bible doesn't teach science at all, but is primarily a great literature of human experience. The scientific views contained in it are the opinions of men of the time it was written. That these scientific views are the expressions of men inspired by God to teach the world, the Modernist does not believe, since to him many contradictions are obvious, and he regards the discoveries of science as in no way injurious to the teaching that he believes. Many of our greatest scientists are the most devout Christians...
...first Episcopalian to see his name in national headlines as a modernist was the Rector of St. Bartholomew's, Manhattan-the venerable Leighton Parks. Millions read his name and hundreds wrote him letters. Some of the letters were "brutally abusive." Hellfire, they said, was not too dreadful for a man who would disturb the peace of the Church...
...They are novelties," said Dr. John Roach Straton when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the teachings of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, prominent New York Modernist clergymen. "They appeal to curiosity and to vanity. They tell their congregations that everything is all right. Instead of rebuking sin, they soft-soap. What is the use of a preacher if everything is all right...
Asked to define the beliefs of the Modernist, Dr. Straton replied: "The average Modernist preacher could put on the point of a pin what he does believe but it would take a ten ton truck to hold the things he does not believe. What they should do is get out of their present churches, and establish churches of their own, converting people to their beliefs if they can, instead of standing still, and knocking to pieces the very foundations of the Christian religion...