Article November 15, 1947 Issue

Signs of the Times

The Spiritual Basis of Freedom and Democracy

with contributions from Frank Martin, C. Aubrey Hearn, Charles L. Copenhaver, Charles L. Taylor

Frank Martin Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds, England

There is a very common idea that religious belief is a bondage. ... When Christian are narrow and bigoted, as they sometimes are, it is because they forget that negative goodness is not goodness at all. ...

Therein is one of the differences between true religion and false religion, or irreligion. False religion tries to dominate, to impose its teaching by force and fear. Irreligion does not fear God—it does not know Him—but it brings men into the deepest slavery, for the interests of this world are the greatest of all tyrants to those who have nothing beyond them.

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