'JYHERE is a growing disillusionment with the new religions, which despite noisy pretensions are showing themselves daily more inadequate to satisfy man's spiritual hunger.
There was rosy in the dawning religion of Progress but now dissatisfied people are asking, What sort of progress do they mean Progress towards what The red cult of Communism, with its Messianic idea of saving the poor by bringing them to a godless earthly Utopia, though but recently born is already old, a weary, a dying religion. A. ain, who does not see that Nationalism, and the absurd new religion of "Race and Blood" are fraught with disaster for civilization The only intrinsically superior race is the well-known human race.
Hence, the thoughtful person, longing for a religion that will answer his fundamental spiritual reeds, now that these new faiths have failed him begins to turn back to the old. Otto Karrer says Buddhism is today the religion of some 8% per cent. of mankind, Confucianism of 18!2 per cent. Hinduism of 13 per cent, Islam of 13 per cent, Christianity its forms of nearly 35 per cent, and the remaining religions together of about 12 per cent. Will a comparison of these great world religions, viewing them historically in themselves and in their founders rather than in their followers, reveal any of them as a possible religion for the future? Such a one ought to answer satisfactorily all the fundamental questions about God, the hereafter. the meaning of life; it ought not to be destructive of morality, or the God given rights of the individual or the family. It should be for all mankind.
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