The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

what the church was for, / did not
know anything about god, except what
somebody had told me and they knew
no more than did about him, When
l preached of heaven and hell, l was
not man, was a phonograph, grind
ing out the dead views of the past.
Then great war came along
knew nothing about that. was too
busy attending to what had been told
me. l was supposed to believe that
christian god had sent this war to
punish the imperialists of Germany
and give the world to democracy. The
Germans thot that a christian god
had sent the war to punish the demo-
crazy of America and to give the
world to Imperialism. The German
bishops were right. Anyhow, the
Americans came out with lots of inn
perialism; Imperialism to burn 1t has
been evolved into despotism.
Begins To Think.
There is no time to tell the whole
olOly VI Tic wall Dul LWCuIy
young lives were crushed out and the
world flowed with blood before this
quarrel of the gods in the sky and the
capitalists on earth came to an end.
Had / been busy in my religious
church activities, would have whoop-
ed it up for the church. But 1 had
gone home to die. l didn't die, l am
still living. l had little time to
think, something had never had be
fore and no bishop before or since
has had any. was like boy with a
new toy. thought, and understood.
found that neither the American god,
nor the German god was real.
The gods in the skies, Jesus, Jeho-
yah, Buddha, Allah, hadn't done any
thing. They didn't cause the war and
couldn't stop it, or prevent future
wars. And so long as we look to them
for any help we shall be in hopeless
plight. found that if these gods
were real that had been taught to
worship, they were gods so cruel that
decent man would have nothing to
do with them. The only criticism /
could make of the christion god was
that he had evolved into such terri
BILE god and that he was not real. He
was supposed to have written the BIZ
BILE, but the bible was written by man.
He was supposed to have handed
down revelations, but he had not. /
found that the gods in the skies, Je-
sus, NBuddha, Jehovah, Allah, all of
them were only symbols such as our
Uucle Sam and Santa Claus. found
that the real god is nature. The god
Of reality pointed out the law OF evo-
luton and revolution too. made this
great discovery that the words "evolu-
ton and revolution" go hand in hand.
The greatest movement know of is
the international labor movement
There are many theories of religion
and politics and many manifestations
of them, but theer is really only one
human race. We are the mothers,
fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and
daughters Of one family. 1t does not
matter whether you are protestant,
catholic or a Jew, I could be all of
them. 1t makes no difference whether
you are christian, heather or atheist.
1t still remains that we all belong to
the human race. That is all there is
| to 1t.
When you see this as / do it will
change your ideas about everything,
even as il did mine. This fact has
now become so obvious that even
some Of the theologians are beginning
to realize that 1t is the truth. When
theologian realizes that anything is
true, it is interesting.
Religious Change.
1.-THE big religious institutions do not