WHY WORRY?
FORE KNOWLEDGE AND MISERY. G.B.S. ON CHURCHES LONDON, June 11. Mr George Bernard Shaw and Mr Hilaire Belloc, the well-known essayist and historian, engaged last night in a debate for charity. Discussing the future, Mr Shaw roundly attacked the churches. The most incompetent men, he said, could be found in the Vatican, and the most competent on the executive of the Fabian Society. There were not enough saints to go round. The world possessed a small nucleus of saints. The others were tiresome, snobbish and downright scoundrels. “ The world,” he declared, . “ is tired of parson and priest. I would not care twopence if all the churches crumbled. Our souls would still go marching on.” Mr Belloc said: “It would be a misfortune to see the future. If everybody knew next year's Derby winner, there would be no gambling. Only a condemned man knows the date of his death, and he’s unhappy.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17572, 24 June 1925, Page 4
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