Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where, if not to the physics textbooks, could the postwar world turn for a new moral impetus which it so obviously needed? The Christian churches were locked in a struggle with materialism, which had been growing for 150 years and of which Communism was the deadliest projection. There could be no evading this defensive struggle; however, it absorbed a very high proportion of the energies of Christian institutions needed in other vineyards...
...make the best defense we can of our most cherished social and historical values against ruthless foes. But from the standpoint of our Christian faith we have to view such struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world obscures the moral issues involved in the struggle and creates a vicious circle of mutual fear, from which there is no easy escape. We do not suggest that there is some simple pacifist solution for these mutual fears, created by power contests...
Once the topic for the editorial was determined, it was necessary to think about the "message" it could carry--some deathless gem which could be summarized in a few words for the "Reader's Digest." Up to now, no such moral has come to mind, but later on it may be possible to find some connection between the heat wave and the moral degradation of the younger generation or the spiritual decay of Liberalism...
Editors will feel an urge to jump on Hocking, especially for his parallels, for truth in politics and morals is no matter of applying a multiplication table. But critics can profit by reading his argument to the end, at least for his insistence on the principle that freedom of the press presupposes a specific acknowledgement of moral responsibility by the press. His argument is a rocky path, but along the way he has strewn some bright pebbles of comment and criticism...
...that we are at war with Russia, it must be the prayer and effort of every Christian to help win the war at the moral and spiritual level without letting it reach the shooting stage. It is our duty to realize that Communism is pagan, anti-God, and antiChristian...