Even as churches and other places of worship are starting to re-open and function in Eastern Europe, these are atomic research centres and nuclear facilities opening up in a number of countries that are competing with one another to outspeed the others and be the first in perfecting a destructive nuclear device. At the same time, they loudly proclaim that all their activities are for peaceful purpose. This ominous new development, my esteemed brothers, is not a good sign. It is a danger signal and the earlier this 6th Meeting recognises it, the better it is. This emerging new threat to humanity and to our world is rendered even more dangerous and complicated by being compounded with religious fanaticism.
Fanaticism is non-rational.
Also, it recognises no restraints or limitations. In such a state of things ends and means are no longer related. The frenzy and the fanaticism discards calm reasoning and decides upon using any means or methods to achieve its ends and aims. Thus all ethics and higher ideals are discarded as irrelevant. To thus lose sight of ethics and higher ideals is a tragic blunder.