The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-15
HATRED In RELIGION
TT DAN NOT BE, SAYS RABBI RY-
PINS, BECAUSE TERMS ARE
INCOMPATIBLE
RELIGION INVOLVES TRUTH
And No Proper Conception of the
Relations of Main to Man Can JUS
tify Bigotry, Intolerance or Ha-
tired Whether. Toward a Sect or q
People-DangeR Is in Perversion
of the Truth.

n vns
fought Children to Be Taught Reli-
gion?" was the subject of the morning
sermon Of DR.. Rypins. before Mount Zion
Hebrew congregation, yesterday. DR..
Rypins said, inr parts
People confuse religion with theology.
Thus when people claim that they are
not religious. at best they mean that they
are not theological.isThe idea of religion
and mans need thereof Is entirely apart
and distinct from the diverse concepts Of
God and the practical applying Of these
concepts Of the different schools Of the
ology Religion Is the center Of human
life and human interest. Theology Is the
coloring that man gives unto the prin-
ciples Of these interests. Therefore, the
fology varies with the degree Of true Gull
ture. Religion, on the other hand, re-
mains permanent.
Religion may best be defined as the
binding Of first personality unto a higher
personality. That higher personality in
the universal sense is God. That man.
from his earliest beginnings, Graves to
realize true and deep knowledge of
the association that binds him unto God,
must be apparent to- the thinking.
THAT this process Of binding Of per-
sonality must begin with the very begin
ming of educational life is evident from
the fact Of its universality. People may
desire not to bias the sensitive and plas-
tic minds Of their children with the con-
fused notions of God and goodness They
cannt get away, even If they would, from
the very central interest Of the child
life. ~ -
1.-THE beginning Of this culture, that
should make for the right relationship be-
tween the finite and the infinite, must
begin during the formative period of child
life. Parents need not give their chill
dren theology. They must give them re-
ligion. They may leave the choice Of
theology unto their children when they
are adolescent. They cannot omit, log
ically, nor morally the building I'D Of
the child character, upon lines that are
fundamentally and primarily religious
1t matters little7 what form of reu-
gion, and what mode of its expression,
the child, In its later years, will choose
for It's life guidance. The principles that
are universal. and that are bedded in the
fundamental concept of a universal good
hoSS, LluSI reach the CnllQ during the
formative period of its life.
''The teaching Of religion is nothing
short Of character Building and the first
cannot be accomplished without the
other The varied misconceptions Of God
and goodness that have flooded the earth.
that have established an almost In
finite number Of schools Of theology, and
that have cursed the human family with
cruel hatred and bitter prejudices, are
at the bottom OF the present widespread
indifference to religious need and re-
ligions benign influence. The prejudice
Of class against class at bottom Is theo-
logical prejudice growing out of the pop
u1ar misconception Of God and goodness.
No creed, and no system of religious
education, teaches. or can teach hatred Of
man to man. Only the misrepresentation
of truth, and. the tperHersfon Of it's prfn-
ciples, causes; the awful danger Of re-
ligious bigotry.9 800
'In reality the hatred against the Jew
is theological hatred and the same mis-
conception Of truth creates the hatred of
the Hebrew. In this instance, the Jew
is nearest at hand, and the misconcep-
ton vents it's venom on him..
Therefore, when people claim in true
earnest that they wish to free their
children from the trammels Of religion,
they can only mean to rid them Of the
fetters of theology The two terms must
not be confused. Man may, indeed, be
happier without theology. He cannot
strive after that universal quest with
out religion"