New Britain herald., 1928-02-27
RABBI HADAS HITS
 MOCK PATRIOTISM
Dos Not Far to Be AsSaled
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Collective humictde. which permit society to put a man to death ant the kind of patriotism which talk of 'Dasoes'' and Huns was Sc verely Aayed by Rabbi Gershor Hadas in an addzess to Eweryman'' Bible class yesterday morning a Trinity NJ. E. church. Rabbi Hada' said in part:
 T have been reaaled. as you have very likely. by addresses by radio and in the newspapers. apparent, by political leaders here and there on the need, the uGgent need. o1 patriotism, and it oUurred to me and was brought home to me the utter lack Of need of certain klnc of patriotism which, as ] saw it, was being preached in America today.
 "Yet to my mind that is the cruA of all of our civilization in these days, all that we have in religion and patriotism-the ability to dis tinruish between good. and bad. be- tween just and unjustl between holy and profane things.
 'Too many of us go through this world very much as we go through d department store. There are dia- monds and jewelry there and fine garments, and we go out hugglng to our breasts a paste diamond worth BOG. and the reason for 1t is that we are not able to distinguish between what is good and what Is poor.
 We in this world today live. as & brilliant preacher once called 1t, in an age of substitutes. YOu will find it everywhere. We ares building q synagogue just now, and ] have had contractors tell me about substitutes for marble and substitutes for gran its and substitutes for wood and substitutes for Almost every kind of material. There are substitutes for furs: there are substitutes for leath> CT: there are substitutes for healthy faces. and so on down the line.
 Y call upon an architect to draw plans for me. I expect those plans to be the very highest ideal of G structure. I do not know whether | shall be able to build according to that ideal: but if I begin with a substitute where will I land? If my aim in life is not the highest ideals, not the highest reality. what will the reality itself be? What. will my life be?
 'Someone pointed out the other day that we have gotten, a substitute for our souls; we have gotten sub stitutes for our conscienres: We have gotten substitutes for our honor; we have gotten substitutes for our in tegrity. People tell us there are things just as good as souls; peo- pie tell us there are things just as good as consciences: people tell us there are things just as good as in. teyrity: but you know and I know that they are lying to us; they are misleading us. There Is no substi- tute for the highest ideals.
 No Substitute For Patriotism
 Let us go on to patriotism. I have said there Is not substitute for patriotism. What is patriotism :? Just think . moment. Just bear with mo for mWnent. Ramble through your Bible. your new testa- ment, and discover verse that will fit for a starting point in my talk on patriotism. Is it not the. verse: Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods?
 Now that is just exactly the verse that a politician rsed the oth- CT day in a western state to preach q ,damnable kind of patriotism that you render unto Caesar every thing we have and render unto God the leavings. That is not what Jesus meant; that Is not what the saints of history meant, and for no reason on earth will grant that 1t is what you as Christian mean by that verse.
 And what are the things that are Gods? What are the things that belong to God? Let us sec: The very first thing that belongs to God is life itself. You will agree with me. The holiest thing, the most sacred thing. the first thing, the thing that we cannot replace and that we cannot understand is hu- man life-the human body created in Gods image According to an- cient law we were not permitted to desecrate the body even by tattoo- ing. to injure the body in any way, shape or form.
 Nor are we to give to Caesar that body; nor are we to give to Caesar the privilege of destroying that body individually or by homi- eide or any corrective licensed hom- icide. cannot for the life of me understand how either Jew or Chris tan can very easily and very read fly destroy and take life for any cause or any reason. Usually the ar gument Is given that no one is real ly responsible. It is the jury that r14.II!!f{kk{{4! .I!fk{!