The Mastery Of Nature Is Vainly Believed

The Tendency To Claim God As An Ally For Our Partisan Value And Ends Is The Source Of All Religious Fanaticism.

Goodness, Armed With Power, Is Corrupted; And Pure Love Without Power Is Destroyed.

Even As Rigorous A Determinist As Karl Marx, Who At Times Described The Social Behaviour Of The Bourgeoisie In Terms Which Suggested A Problem In Social Physics, Could Subject It At Other Times To A Withering Scorn Which Only The Presupposition Of Moral Responsibility Could Justify.

Democracy Is Finding Proximate Solutions To Insoluble Problems.

A Church Has The Right To Set Its Own Standards Within Its Community. I Don't Think It Has A Right To Prohibit Birth Control Or To Enforce Upon A Secular Society Its Conception Of Divorce And The Indissolubility Of The Marriage Tie.