“CHRISTIANITY DROPPED”
QUEER OUTBURST LONDON, April 2. “Organised Christianity will be dead a century hence,” declared Mr. C. E. M. Joad, of the Ministry of Labor, and author of several books on philosophy and theology, in a speech at Cambridge. There were nearly 5000 fewer clergy of the Church of England in 1928 than in 1921, he went on. The present generation has knocked the bottom out of the universe. Victorians dropped their gods through a hole, and we have now to fill the vacuum. Wistful agnosticism is the chief characteristic of the times. It seems unlikely that traditional Christianity will recover its influence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17235, 15 April 1930, Page 7
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