The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-10
PIGS ARE PIGS, BUT - ARE
CHRISTIANS CHRISTIANS?
BY n. ID. Cochran

It must be apparent to Intelligent readers that
from time to time write controversial subjects and
sometimes express opinions that provocative. AS
haven't the slightest desire to make anybody think
think, and feel that something has been accomplished
if what write makes somebody think it doesn't dis
turb me at all when somebody writes In TO news
paper jumping all my opinions. Often they may
be right don't know
have a notion that when people start to thinking
things out for themselves it doesn't make much diff
ference how wrong they think to begin with for
they start thinking for themselves there's chance
that they'll think right finally however wrong they
think at the The big thing is for people do
their thinking.
Most of lazy mentally. Too many Of us
willing to let somebody else do thinking
That's why we are so set in opinions about re-
gion and politics. We let political bosses do po-
thinking.
We all prejudiced. In that don't claim to
be different from others No how fair 1 try to
be in discussing religious matters it is fact that
start out with Protestant prejudices That's
was born and raised in religious Methodist family
and got all of my religious training that church
But that isn't my fault 1 couldn't help it, Most of
us are Professionals Catholics, Methodists Baptists
Presbyterians something else for better reason
than that parents raised that way. Mighty
few of us know what it's all about
One thing 1 did get through my head was that
whether we were Catholics or any of the many kinds
of Professionals could still be Christians BY that
1 mean that have good chance To be Christians
although l can't believe that many of us are real
Christians Both Catholic and Protestant preachers
preach what they think is Christianity, but L have
met few of them that practice what they preach
One thing 1 couldn't understand then and haven't
yet got through my head how the Christians of
England, France, Italy, Belgium the United States
Germany, Austria and Russia could murder one an
other in wholesale fashion during the World War and
all the preachers, both Catholic Protestant could
send up to high heaven to the Christian
God pleading with Him to take sides between two sets
of numbering Christians, all whom protested to be-
Heve in the Fatherhood Of God and the Brotherhood
of Man.
And l can't understand why in the United
States of America haven't Christian sense enough
we who profess to be Chrstians-to together in
Christian peace and harmony without trying to
each others eyes out because happen to belong to
different Christian creeds
Is 1t because we have souls? One might think so
Pigs are pigs when thrown into big pen even If
men can point out some of them as Berkshires and
others as something else Cattle don't know that thew
are Hostelns, Jersey some other man-named breed
And among themselves dogs dogs, whether man
calls them Airedale, Bull, Collie Great Dane Setter
Pointer, Wolf Hound or plain
Man alone Of all the animal kingdom is the onlv
one VINO insists on being something other than what
he is-a human being. And whatever he happens 10
think ne is he wants to force all other humans tn he
think I'm happy because don't want to make anv.
body do anything he doesn't to do or be ANYTHING
ne doesn't want to be. And I want him to Golden
Rule me in the way.