Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that my son quotes it frequently, and other schoolboys do too. He and others remember some of your other words. What you said about God, for example: 'I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the world. Nature is subtle, but never malevolent. Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind...
...power of religion fades, moral values disappear into the formless, indiscriminate carp-mouth of technological progress. Inevitably, old spiritual terrain is left unprotected. Pseudo philosophers, crypto-religionists, pyrotechnical polemicists (all fuse and no bang) are bound to move in. The key question for all religions is how to cope with and justify the control over man of a universe that appears to be spectacularly indifferent. Death is the most conspicuous example of such control...
This is why Shaw asserted that the one thing all intelligent men are interested in is religion. This is why Harrington, a novelist and social critic (Life in the Crystal Palace), claims attention. Presenting Immortalism as the new salvation, he is at his most provocative when he evaluates the forces that play upon humanity...
...Religion is free to evaluate--free of accept or reject on the basis of quality alone. It is truth-seeking. Adherents believe that an earnest, intelligent search yields far more religious truth than the blind acceptance of the tradition of any sect...
...PREFER INTELLIGENT CHOICE OF RELIGION TO BLIND BRAINWASHED, CLERICALLY MANIPULATED ACCEPTANCE OF FAMILY TRADITION WHICH KEEPS RELIGIOUS PEOPLE SEGREGATED, ASK FOR THE FREE PAMPHLET, "BROTHERHOOD: ONE RELIGION FOR ALL." Joseph I. Arnold, Ph.D. '34 One Religion of Brotherhood 16 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts...