INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY The essence of Christianity is the | importance of the individual. And [that doctrine has been the founda- | tion in law of all nations whose material progress has been greatest. The first real step forward in individual freedom was the Magna Carta, which has deeply coloured the history of the world. Its most perfect expression is found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States which carried the ideal of freedom a vast distance further.
These documents, say, in effect, that man as an individual, as a person, is important and that he has certain., fundamental and eternal rights which cannot be abrogated by men in the mass as represented by the State. It is not coincidental that governments based on the theory that the State is all important and the individual unimportant have inevitably destroyed or submerged religion and Christianity. For this kind of government must turn itself into a fake religion. Its. goals are wholly material. Hitler knew that when he scoffed at Christianity and said that the ideal of Nazism was the one true deity for the German peoples-Clifton (N.J.) Journal.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 93, 12 February 1947, Page 4
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