The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-03-22

its March 1s Newswcek reports under the head
of Religion vaporngs Washington divine which ought
church fundamental American principle
is going by the board What principle? What american prn
pie? Why the right dbeleve (Which is inherent in the right
to believe"
belief of which the speaks is OF course
God and in revealed truths Now there God and He has
spoken in revelation then there question about human
rights the matter there only the question of human duty
No earthly American other force belief there can
be ng snd @ 1od % But % 5 e aa %
obligation in the soul and the conscience And national
fundamental principle" Justify ignoring the obligation
statement that "he right disbeiev, inherent in
the right to believe" is meaningless babbe You might well
right inherent the right live
formula Of words which sounds @ as though might have deep
the proletariat makes no sense at all
The minister is by Newsweek champion intellect
ua freedom What intellectual freedom? surely the free
follow reason follow reasonably without let
hindrahce from earthly power But intellectual freedom
exemplifed the attitude that holds itself at liberty to
consider the of and two five three That
sort of thing is not freedom but dlocy #fK+R
And idiocy is not a fundamental American principle Yet
Americans have been fed so long on the church OF your choice
and the notion that God has right speak, direct mankind
in His service nce only what man chooses and not what COO
the champion intellectual freedom may actually have the
surface appearance of sanity. -
How far this minister from notion of religion is re-
veaed another bright bit of intellectual freedom expressed
in these words "A heoogan who not an agnostc
is necessity fool Behold the Revelation of One Who Knows!
theoogian intellectually free hold sincere
belief required Of necessity agnos of
s'ty he is a fool Hail. freedom!
For what is theology" the champ swift with
answer dripping with intellectual freedom and unmarked
by dogmasm Theology he T the attempt to give an
orderly of the unknown In other words theology
is much ado about nothing The minister won't let be intel
lectualy doubt that Want to be called fool? ter
rbe charge that would be coming from the CHIP Of Int Frdm
st Paul says that the God known
from the world around But the champ dsmsse St Paul The
the natural law the moral law But the champ holds
other views be Intellectually free doubt that law
exists infinite alperfec the Creator and the
Ruler of the universe is truth demonabend long DEM
onstrateby But the champ God unknown
That is God fools like you and But the
champ knows all right Intellectual may be right
place he this traditional American prin
cpe but he also definitely God lives in the mind
power its thought the of its truth the impulse of
its honesty SO that's what God says BY what
authority does it? Are Intellectually free to accept
this word or to call him who atters 1t fooF
God lives in the open mind never to close?
open mind like the open mouth must close food
retain it it. is to live And the word is nsta harsh
the the champion of intellectual freedom Now
the the mind truth And when the mind has
grasped certtude there possibility of
its being on that particular point
The laboratory science discovering
facts tends make houghess people like the champion think
that nothing be definitely and finally known But the mar
who has freedom OF mental action looks around him. he
realm of well the changing realm of material
things realizes that laboratory science possible
truth The scientist works on fixed mathematical formulas Why
the champ calls for recognition of fundamental principle
principle impossible for believer in the continuously
open mind.
God lives in the voice of truth" minds truth. But
sgnostc truth that the mind discover about
God Again the champ things both rather he
champion seriously We shall forget that
Christians and that he is Of necessity fool But
shall continue to exercise the intellectual freedom OF
ing him silly and insignificant nincompoop.
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