New Britain herald., 1925-07-27
RELIGIOUS HATRED
 LIGHTED AT TRIAL
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some religious thought would reach the children. as a religious leader saw the urge of strengthening that phase of our Synagogue life-but no one dreamed that there would &C., tually be passed a law such as was passed finlly in one of our sovereign states--(the laW).
 And the law having been passed it was only a matter of a short period that American sense of Americanism would rebel and did rebel-and Sopcs was charged with a misdemeanor. The trial that followed apart from ifs dramatic and fantastic turns that it took and the character of the men that acted In the drama was a irregular In the run of justice the law was violated and tho fine was duly imposed--there was no question but that justice was done. But what of the law? That is yet to be determined? Has the state the right to mako such a law? The whole world of educators makes the decided answer. no. As for the con- stitutonalty of it--I cannot see how 1t can be constitutional.
 "The one thing that the trial at | Dayton made clear is that the law introduces sectarian creed upon the schools of Tennessee. In the first place it assumes and accepts the Bible as the basis of knowledge. AS the author of the bill remarked The Bible is the foundation upon which
 our American government is built
 And again The evolutionist who denies the Bible story of creation as well as other Biblical accounts can- not be Christian. It (evolution) goes hand in hand with modernism makes Jesus Christ a fakir and undermines lthe foundation of our government?
 Is it not clear that the law imposes in the first place a religious doctrine
 upon the schools but also the doc Urine of a particular sect -- even
 granting that this is a Christian country. There are all sorts of Christians-I have heard preachers without number in pulpltS and i'll
 books and conversation-have read
 thousands of pages of literature and
 find that fundamentalism is not the sole religion in America, Is MT. But
 Ter or Mir. Bryan the sole authority [ ( of piIlno
 "Why not AIr. Fosdick or Holmes
 or Potter-or the deans of the great
 seminaries of America or of Europe;
 Why not ask for example what the
 authors of the Bible have to say ol
 the subject. After all we Jews have
 the honor of writing the Bible -- there is a plan for collecting the
 copyrights on it-begun by a Chris
 tian-you will not deny me that
 And we Jews commented on th'
 Bible long before there was Chris { tian interpretation of these books. \ eve are told by the fundamental ist that the creation is told in tn N Bible-We are assured that God in the image of man, that and othe things. Now I am not Christian but have read enough of Christia literature to know that that is nc so accepted by the clergy-th schools are not teaching it and tn laity are not accepting it. An they have good ground. The rabbi of the first century have given u clear notions of the symbolism of tn Bible. The story of creation is no { a single story. God, we are told b. the rabbis, made worlds and destroy ed them. God made Eve of rib a symbol of modesty. The story 0 the creation varies in Genesis Il Psalms and in Job. And are we f q accept the miracles? We Jews hoy A the Bible. We are not troubled b q the antics of a whale or the speakin \ of an ass. We do not accept as lit Y eral the plaques and the division c ls the Red Sea. We have never use
 the Bible to suppress science - fo N the Jew has always been the man ( x the book. The atheist if learned S more acceptable than the hig E priest. Study and study is the CT { of the rabbis to this day. Well ma < the Bible cry-'Protect me from m N friends
 The world as the scientist ha
 shown it to us in a world governe M not by caprice but by law. Tn % dictum of Jesus that Whatsoever
 man soweth that she he also real
 is not only biblical teXt-it has bt N come a part of the consciousness s mankind.
 The Brunos, the Galileos and tf Jenners of history have fought tt good fight to redeem man from ii M norance to emancipate him--ye N even the Darwins-to give him mol N leisure more understanding. Son
 of you may remember the passal E in Faust where Goethe likens hi H tory to the book with the seven sea N described in Revelations which T