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We live in a time which demands tolerance but "which,
ing attitudes and supporting books and programs that
by reason of underlying psychological forces, tends to
can have only one result-the heightening and increasing
produce anger, hatred, and uncharitableness. In every
of intolerant aggressiveness within the American family.
human personality there are present elements of potential
We have a right to ask Catholics, clergy and laymen,
enmity and aggression. These elements are coiled along-
to examine themselves and their system of doctrine and
side and are intertwined with the basic drives of self-
practice from the standpoint of that tolerance, under-
preservation and sexuality. When uneasiness and in-
standing, and brotherly forbearance without which real
security eat their way into the souls of men, as under
democracy is impossible. By the same token Protestants
the conditions of our present world they inevitably do
and others have the duty of being sure that they are act-
with ceaseless instancy and pressure, the impulse to
ing and thinking, not within a closed barricade of fixed
strike, hate, and blame becomes extremely powerful.
ideas, but in the spirit of the golden rule of Jesus Christ.
The supreme example of this is the planetary civil war
"Whatsoever", said our Lord, "you would that men
at this moment rending civilization and absorbing so vast
should do unto you, do you even so unto them: for this
a proportion of total human energy. Another example,
is the law and the prophets." "Come now, and let us
less formidable but more glaring and disturbing because
reason together, saith the Lord."
of its setting, is the increase in America of religious
When President Truman, a Baptist from Missouri and
intolerance. It is my impression that during the past
a personality as characteristically and indubitably Amer-
six years, ever since the end of the War against Ger-
ican as any who in the one hundred sixty odd years of
many and Japan, there has been a slow but steady and
its existence has presided over the destinies of this Re-
progressive boiling up of the passion of intolerance,
public, announced without warning the appointment of
especially between Catholics and Protestants. No doubt
General Mark Clark as Ambassador to the Vatican, the
the Roman Catholics are far from blameless in this.
bulletin burst upon an unprepared public with the force
There are elements in the Catholic system and psychology
of an atom bomb. Catholics could not believe the bounti-
which seem to outsiders perpetual symbols of a superior-
fulness of the news. Protestant ministers already at
ity complex and which tend to invite a rejoinder of mili-
work on Reformation Day sermons, were shaken to the
tancy and resentment. I believe, however, that in the
depths of their professional and theological being. In
recent period "Protestants and other Americans", to
between on the misty flats of many unsettled opinions
quote an organizational name that is a type and symptom,
multitudes were aroused to wonder and to inquire-for
have outpaced our Roman Catholic brethren in express-
a moment.
[4]
[5]
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