The Devil Turned Loose
Out of a poll of 700 preachers, the following results were given: 48% delued the complete inspiration of the Bible; 24% rejected the atonement; 12% rejected the resurrection of the body, 27% did not believe that Christ will return to judge the quick and the dead. A Washillgton, D. C., minister said, "We liberal clergymen are no longer interested in the fundamental-modernist controversy. We do not belicve we should even waste our time engaging in it. So far as we are concerned, it makes no difference whethel Christ was born of a virgin or not. We don't even bother to form an opinion on the subject." An Arlington, Va., minister said, "We have closed our minds to such trivial consideration as the question of the resurrection of Christ. If you fundamentalists wish to believe that nonsense we have no objection, but we have more important things to preach than the presence or absence of an empty tomb 20 centuries ago." A leading minister in Washington, D. C., said flatly, "In our denomination what you call the 'faith of our Fathers' is approaching total extinction. Of course a few of the older ministers still cling to the Bible. But among the younger men, the real leaders of our denomination today, I do not know a single one who believes in Christ, or any of the things that you classify as fundamentals." One modernist said, "We are interested in human life and human destiny on earth. We don't know or care whether there is a life beyond the grave. We presume there is a God but we know that He will ever be a mystery to us. We do not know or care whether God possesses personality or not. He may be just an impersonal force. Religion means very little, if anything. In the modern world religion has no vital place. The function of the modern ministers is to guide the thinking people along social and economic lines. Morals, like religion, are out of date. The world today requires a new social order. The younger generation won't need either morals or religion if we create a social order without ignorance or poverty. We are moving in the direction of the elimination of prayer from our services entirely. We still include it occasionally, to please those who are accustomed to it, for prayer is a sort of habit with folks It takes time to educate them to a realization that it is a hangover from the superstitious past. We do not teach Bible to our young people. We do not teach them to pray. Our youth program is centered around recreation." -Selected by E. B. Pinkerton
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