Religion Is So Frequently A Source Of

The Measure Of Our Rationality Determines The Degree Of Vividness With Which We Appreciate The Needs Of Other Life, The Extent To Which We Become Conscious Of The Real Character Of Our Own Motives And Impulses, The Ability To Harmonize Conflicting Impulses In Our Own Life And In Society, And The Capacity To Choose Adequate Means For Approved Ends.

Now The Ordinary Protestant, Jew Or Secularist Has A Stereotype About Catholicism. It Consists Of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-american Catholicism And, Let Us Say, A Catholicism Of O'connor's "great Hurrah." Now There Are Types Of Catholicism Like That But This Doesn't - This Doesn't Do Justice To The Genuine Relation That Catholicism Has Had To Democratic Society.

The Chief Source Of Man's Inhumanity To Man Seems To Be The Tribal Limits Of His Sense Of Obligation To Other Men.

The Stupidity Of The Average Man Will Permit The Oligarch, Whether Economic Or Political, To Hide His Real Purposes From The Scrutiny Of His Fellows And To Withdraw His Activities From Effective Control. Since It Is Impossible To Count On Enough Moral Goodwill Among Those Who Possess Irresponsible Power To Sacrifice It For The Good Of The Whole, It Must Be Destroyed By Coercive Methods And These Will Always Run The Peril Of Introducing New Forms Of Injustice In Place Of Those Abolished.

There Has Been A Religious Revival Because - Let Me Put It Like This, The People That Weren't Traditionally Religious, Conventionally Religious, Had A Religion Of Their Own In My Youth. These Were Liberals Who Believed In The Idea Of Progress Or They Were Marxists. Both Of These Secular Religions Have Broken Down.