"WITHOUT RELIGION,”
TO THE EDITOB. Sib,— Mr “Marsdan,” in his reply, makes the very common error of confusing ideal Christianity with the real. Every believer in Christianity, doubtless, has an ideal of some kind, and it is necessarily a low or lofty ono in proportion to the mental and moral development of the believer. With ideals the opponents of the system of ecclcsiasticism—the Christianity of history—can have no concern, since no two men’s ideals are exactly alike. It is with the concrete (albeit rapidly crumbling) mass of theological dogma, which has been and is so profitable a commodity to priestcraft, and which was and is, I maintain, the cause of mental stagnation among millions, that I am at war. I perfectly understand Mr “ Marsdan’s” objection to anyone making a statement on his own responsibility, as he is probably so accustomed to the orthodox formula of “thus saith someone else” that any departure from the second-hand method will naturally be distasteful to him.—l am, etc., J. B. Hunter. Dunedin, January 6.
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Evening Star, Issue 6802, 6 January 1886, Page 4
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