| Even greater is
the divergence between religious and moral doctrines on the one hand and the principles of
expediency governing political activities on the other. The contradictions are ignored or
treated as inevitable and no attempt is made to reconcile them with one another. It has
become another accepted axiom that contradictions between religion and practical affairs
must be deemed unavoidable. This is not a form of
reconciliation, but chronic disharmony, and it must result in injury to the minds of men
and consequently too social well being. Hypocrisy cannot become harmless by being
widespread and taken for granted.
It acts like a consuming internal fever, which is worse
than an obvious and acute distemper. Human energy is wastefully consumed in the
disharmonies involved in the prevailing contradictions in science, religion, national
politics and the conduct of international affairs. |
