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...read your March 14 account of the Rev. Listen Pope's attack on the modern mediums of peddling mass religion, I could imagine the looks of shocked indignation that passed over the pious and well-meaning faces of the Broadcasting and Films Commission of the National Council of Churches. His criticisms are long overdue. A basic misunderstanding of Christianity, which is a philosophy of life demanding fortitude and effort, has led to syrupy organ music, sweet-voiced heroes and heroines and gravelly-voiced villains, which put most religious programs on the level of moralistic soap operas . . . the casual listener...
...ship's keel is accurately pointed parallel to the equator, so that it will sail in the right direction when it starts to follow the sun on its journeys around the earth. Later Egyptians were careless about this detail of astronavigation, but not the pious First Dynasty forefathers...
...U.S.A. a pastor or a parish worker may be approached by any man wanting his advice . . . about how to secure a good used car or something. This in Europe is not considered the proper thing for a Gospel-man to be engaged in . . . We think we are more pious, and we claim to be more directly converting people . . . Result: lack of contacts, lack of conversion...
...guns even on Catholic targets [e.g., Commonweal is strongly anti-McCarthy] when, wrongly or rightly, we felt it was the thing to do...The area of proper disagreement between Catholics is wide indeed, but we feel that the Catholic publicist simply cannot leave the papal peace program in a pious rhetorical vacuum...
Church union is a little like Heaven; not everybody who talks about it is necessarily going there. But many people, not content with pious hopes and careful phrases, are working for real, organic unity among Protestant churches-in which a minister or member of one church is minister or member...