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Eight years ago, Americans and Australians fought the Japanese around Lamington. After the war it became again an area of peaceful coconut plantations, native villages and missions. Seventy whites, mostly Australian government officials and missionaries, and 4,400 natives, all but 400 of them Christians, lived there. When the non-Christian natives recently began predicting that the Spirit Mountain would again spew fire and death, the mission natives scoffed at the "barbarians." But the barbarians went away...
Kluckhohn denied neither the "historical authenticity of Christ nor the existence of God. But he criticized Christianity for posing its dogma as the single truth, for the effort of its missionaries to impose alien values on non-Christian societies, and for "barbarism and destruction unmatched" by any nation...
Calvinist Theologian Emil Brunner of Switzerland knows that "Christianity and Civilization" is a big subject. He does not even believe that there has ever been such a thing as a Christian civilization. "What is usually called by that name," he says, "is a compromise between Christian and non-Christian forces." But he chose to tackle the subject because he feels that no civilization can rightly be called "human" that is not based upon Christianity...
Recently the Song of Ram has pointed up another disharmony-Moslems & Hindus v. Christians. In the dusty railway town of Jhansi, 225 miles south of Delhi, students of the Christian High School asked permission to sing the hymn during their daily prayers. School authorities refused, on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to worship non-Christian gods in a Christian institution. Representatives of the 800 students promptly protested that they merely wanted to do the will of Gandhi, who "died not only for India but for the whole of mankind...
...large sections of the non-Christian world, suicide was and is often accounted an honorable act. Christianity, which believes that every human life belongs to its Creator, has always regarded suicide as a sin. The so-called Christian world of today, sadly confused on matters of life & death, gives lip-service to Christian belief but takes its hat off and stands to attention before a deed of pagan virtue. This confusion was well illustrated last week by Unitarian Minister A. Powell Davies of Washington, D.C., who hailed Jan Masaryk's self-destruction as a hero's act. Wrote...