The Archive · 1941

Faith and Reason

Raro SrmMON sy rub Rev. Johx K. LIPMAN, S.J. have reached a critical point in the history of civilization and many. people are seriously examining the values of "prevalent beliefs and disbelief, The reading and listening public the will by which he Me Bee loc prophecies, it an alone can perform, truths that God has revealed of the supreme authority of God deceive nor be in his today is assaulted with a terrific barrage of claims and counterclaims, propaganda and counter-propaganda; and the natural and inevitable result of this particular kind of warfare is that men are beginning to lose all faith in the written and spoken word.

2 A further consequence of this unending flow of mis-statements, half-truths and deliberate lies is a Wing sense of wonder as to the of ps t we've been. told allow a Go:

worship He requires of men us He has given. for hipping Him,—all this, perhaps, have "swallowed blindly, and in Feality it is just as false and un-y of belief as the grotesque ons that we are daily asked to accept as true.

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