I Think I Should Know

Now When The Historic Religions Give Trivial Answers To These Very Tragic Questions Of Our Day, When An Evangelist Says, For Instance, We Mustn't Hope For A Summit Meeting, We Must Hope In Christ Without Spelling Out What This Could Mean In Our Particular Nuclear Age. This Is The Irrelevant Answer, When Another Evangelist Says If America Doesn't Stop Being Selfish, It Will Be Doomed. This Is Also A Childish Answer Because Nations Are Selfish And The Question About America Isn't Whether We Will Be Selfish Or Unselfish, But Will We Be Sufficiently Imaginative To Pass The Reciprocal Trade Acts.

Adam Smith's Was A Real Universalism In Intent. Laissez Faire Was Intended To Establish A World Community As Well As A Natural Harmony Of Interests Within Each Nation... But The "children Of Darkness" Were Able To Make Good Use Of His Creed. A Dogma Which Was Intended To Guarantee The Economic Freedom Of The Individual Became The "ideology" Of Vast Corporate Structures Of A Later Period Of Capitalism, Used By Them, And Still Used, To Prevent A Proper Political Control Of Their Power.

Ultimately Evil Is Done Not So Much By Evil People, But By Good People Who Do Not Know Themselves And Who Do Not Probe Deeply.

The Final Test Of Religious Faith... Is Whether It Will Enable Men To Endure Insecurity Without Complacency Or Despair, Whether It Can So Interpret The Ancient Verities That They Will Not Become Mere Escape Hatches From Responsibilities But Instruments Of Insights Into What Civilization Means.

Nothing We Do, However Virtuous, Can Be Accomplished Alone; Therefore We Are Saved By Love.