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This may seem a harsh description but there is ample ground for it. Religion, from whose insights and inspirations have come the noblest souls of the race, can also produce little minded dogmatists, fanatics, bitter about sectarian pecularities, bigots who go up to the monastries to thank saints that they are not as other men are.
One of the world's tragadies today is the religion, which ought to unite us in brotherhood, so often divides us into mutually, intolerant camps. Great religion produces great souls whose goodwill overpasses all barriers of race, sect and nation, but small religion can produce such narrowminded zealots with such embittered prejudices, that one watching the consequences, must say, 'Religion is a dangerous drug, unless it is wisely administered',
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Diverse convictions in the realm of religion are inevitable but they can be maintained with charity and goodwill. Here we are in a desperate generation, facing an enemy whose philosophy of life is based on materialistic atheism, with a major part of the world population in its grip The need for great religion is critical, for faith is one's own soul and in the dignity of man, for faith in the possibility of human brotherhood and for goodwill, honouring no racial or sectarian barriers, which will
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"Smite the lies
that vex the growning earth"
