Word: sectarian
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...college in Rhode Island subscribe annually to the doctrinal statement following: "We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelities go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! the sectarianism at Harvard...
...Sectarian preference is, for most of us, but an accident of birth--we accept the religion of our family. The fact that few Christians, Jews, or other sectarians change from "the faith of their fathers" to another sect leaves no doubt that family determines sectarian allegiance. This is true of theologians and other religious leaders as well as of the unlettered. Yet, our young people, impressed by the reputation or position of a sectarian leader look upon him as an authority and feel a sense of security. The "authority" (bound by a childhood commitment) is in reality but the authority...
...Sectarian Mind...
Persistence of sectarianism is promoted strongly by the "conspiracy of silence" or so-called "religious toleration." There is a deadly parallel between the "conspiracy of silence" on sectarianism today with the "conspiracy of silence" on the "social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention the social diseases the diseases were largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians...
...great proportion of the resources of each sect, given in the name of religion, is wastefully used up in just keeping alive and in promoting self-centered sectarian ends rather than in ministering to the religious needs of individuals and communities...