AUTHOR REBUKED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11832, 13 January 1933, Page 2

AUTHOR REBUKED

REFERENCES TO THE BIBLE

BEEKEEPERS AFFRONTED

LONDON, Jau. 1

Tho County of Wexford. Beekeepers’ Association, of which Mr Bernard Shaw became a life member in 1928, is buzzing angrily over “The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God”, published early this month. Dr. Green, addressing a meeting -at Enuiiscortry, proposed that Mr Shaw’s name be removed from, the roil of membership becauss of his “Lasphemous .statements concerning Christ and His Apostles.’’

The speaker added that a', man whose sarcasm and ridicule struck at the very foundations of Grrigtianity should not even remotely be associated with an honorable society of beekeepers. Mr J. S. MacDonald, declaring that he did not want to be associated with an infidel, urged that if the beekeepers could not compel Mr Shaw to retract, they should mark tlieir disapproval. Discussion of the motion was adjourned until the annual meeting.

Mr Shaw, in the book referred to, says: “The Bible is scientifically obsolete, ' but in other respects remains interesting as a record of how the idea of God developed from the .childish idolatry of a thundering, earthquaking, famine-striking, pcstileiigolauncHing, blinding, deafening, killing and destructively omnipotent bogey man to the braver realisation of a benevolent Sage, just Judge, and affectionate Father, evolving into the incorporeal Word which- never becomes flesh.”

Of the Apostles the ' author says; “Sometimes they suggest that there was not a. . Ghfistian among them. Judas alone shdw’ed a gleam of comlnonsense. > -