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...Supreme Court handed down a decision last week that directly affected only a small, freakish religious sect, but indirectly affected nothing less than freedom of conscience...
Smallness v. Sincerity. Outstanding churchmen were notably chary last week about expressing clear-cut opinions on the Supreme Court decision. But the press was outspoken. Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "If a small sect can be denied its constitutional rights, the way is open to deny them to other sects." Said the New York Times: "Jehovah's Witnesses suffer because they are a small and, to many, an obnoxious sect. The minorities whose civil rights are threatened are always small and, to many, obnoxious. . . . Yet their treatment is the test, and will always be the test...
...Russian Baptists are Biblical fundamentalists; they sprang from German Protestantism. Unlike surviving fragments of the Orthodox Church, the Baptists, a young sect, had no social standing in Tsarist Russia, are consequently not held accountable for Tsarist infamy. According to Russian Theologian George P. Fedotov, Visiting Fellow at Yale, they have made a great appeal to Communist youth, "who have a deep spiritual thirst...
This gantlet-run through the wilderness is the thread on which the picture's propa ganda pearls are strung. Best of them is a notable performance by Anton Walbrook as head of a Hutterite sect, of Germanic origin, who practice a kind of Christian communism in Canada's vast wheatlands. To Lieut. Portman's guttural plea that the Hutterites join their Nazi brothers in the war for Nordic supremacy, the leader replies: "Most of us are Germans, but we are not your brothers...
...World, where aggressive . . . Protestantism made the retention of the . . . African religion difficult . . . the most logical adaptation for the slaves . . . and the simplest, was to give their adherence to that Christian sect which . . . in emphasizing baptism by total immersion . . . most resembled the types of worship known to them. . . . In the U.S., where neither Bosumtwe nor watra mama nor Damballa is worshiped, Negro Baptists do not run into the water under possession by African gods. Their water rituals are those of baptism. Yet it is significant that, as the novitiate . . . is immersed, the spirit descends on him at that moment...