RELIGION V. MORALITY
Sir, —Defending a statement showing why less than one-tenth of London’s population of all religions attended church. Dr. H. D. A. Major, editor of the “Modern Churchman,” in “The Times” recently, in reply to the Bishop of Gloucester, gave a long list of church beliefs which he said “a great number of modern churchmen do not believe.” Among them are “original sin” and the “expiatory sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross.” He wrote, “Modern biblical, historical, and scientific studies have rendered them incredible.” I can assure “Sincere" that my reading, though not extensive, is continuing. It has already made me aware that scientific evidence tends to lead foremost thinkers to a conception of this world, animate and inanimate, as being both the product and substance of thought alone, divine or cosmic, spaceless and timeless in origin, evolving in time and space as we apprehend the present.—Yours, etc., ETHICS. December 17, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 8
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