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Here is a statement on the contradiction between Christianity and Masonry by a Mason who frankly renounced Christianity: "If 'we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, by faith and not for our own works or deservings' (Christianity), then it cannot possibly be true that the All-Seeing Eye 'pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart and will reward us according to our merits' (Masonry). One of these declarations excludes the other...
...iron curtains, dedicated to the attainment of democracy, striving for human betterment, offers us a clean field for a positive policy based on good will and an inspired purpose. Such a policy must be for democracy rather than merely against dictators; it must be cooperative rather than self-righteous and denunciatory; it must be candid rather than conspiratorial; and it must seek its own realization by developing the moral credit that supports...
...Tastes. Not so, said Wechsler: "The People have persistently crowded the newsstands to buy the journals which are against [their political interests] and left the liberal publications to a select, self-righteous audience. . . A newspaper which professes to be a spokesman of The People must display some real capacity for interesting them. . . It cannot depend for survival on. . . those who [already] agree with its editorial policy...
...power of those last two is due to the undercutting of one's initial appraisal of the characters. The morally upright are seen to be self-righteous and destructive, while the apparently bad characters are seen to be good, simple, sane human beings, making the best...
...What kind of Christmas will you have?" he asked, less the self-righteous commissar and more the human being...