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Nome, Alaska, March 21, 11)10.
The most entertaining fact about
the European war which, has now
dragged Its bloody length along red
dening with Is foetid slime almost
sixteen months, is that both sides
are still harping upon thoir civilize!
and Christian methods as contrasted
with the other nations’ brutality.
It’s not enough that atrocity char
ge* true or false wore dlsBominated
during the earlier sections of the
war with prompt denial or prompt
counter-charge, but horo after its
facta should have disillusioned evor.v
ono, the partizans are still accusing
their opponents or barbarism
while laying claim to nothing but
warfare on a higher plane them
selves.
Of course it’s rot—pure unadulte
rated nonsense that long ago the
facts of the caso should have elimi
nated, but instead the individual
arguments become louder, noisier
and more oft-rcpcated than ever,
and the people are supposed to think
that ono side can anihilatc with gun
Are a whole regiment or a man can
spit an opponent with a bayonet
thrust and still perform the entire
operation with a highly civilize!
respect for the higher aspect ot
things. Nor is this all the anomaly
that the continued length of the
war is producing. We are told and
the facts seem to endorse this report
at least those facts that come out in
tlie European inferno through the
favor of the censor that the nation
are gettings more religious; that the
lighting has brought the souls of
men closer to the Reality of Goa
and they pray as they never prayed
iiofore.
That’s an astounding condition,
if it is true.
Religion at least insists upon the
Brotherhood of Man. It teaches
that all mankind are brethren; It in
sists that one should love one's ene
mies and pray for those who per
secute and calumniate ono.
There is no manifestation of such
a religion obvious enough on tie:
battlefields of Europe. There is no
attempt made to realize the brothe -
of man even in the Fatherhood of
G od.
The manifestation ' ' that
we see is the man.! ->i.>iiou of reli
gious minds whicli fear eternal
punishment and an Angry God who
delights to punish mortals.
The religion that wo coo re
awakened is not the religion ot
Christ and of love, but simply ani
malistic diabolism, Tear, hate, anger,
terror, vengeance.
h’or two thousand years almost
what has been called Christianity
prevailed in Europe. During that,
time history records horrors many
of them perpetrated in the name of
that religion which would shock and
horrify a savage mind.
During that time laws were ap
proved by those holding positions
“by the grace of God" that outraged
every sense of decency, morality
and humanity. During that time a
social system prevailed which sus
tained a rotten aristocracy and a
rotteuer royalty upon the festering
masses of the serfs. The principles
enunciated by Christ found no sort
of expression in human existence
except that those who were socially
and economically submerged were
taught by ecclesiastical parasites to
be content within that station wher
God placed them.
The idea of a God of love found
mo place in men’s lives except Just
as it was taught superficially. What,
did inspire men was a real and ever
present fear of demons and govern
ing wrath and the very God they
pretended to believe in was in their
minds as a God of Terror who de
lighted in the miseries and the sutt
erings aitd the eternity ot horror hfc
could mete out when unappeasod to
the victims that ho had himself cre
ated.
That was diabolism. And that
diabolism, or devil-worship persisted 1
even under the most respectable
forms. It has really been the main
spring of social life as far as such
religion can be the mainspring of
anything. It dictated virtue for fear
of Hell and it dictated compensa
tion to the devil lest he pursue the
poor victims of his wrath against
mankind with undue suffering.
Men read and learned about the
Golden Rule but how could the
golden rule find expression when
the blessings and happiness and en
joyment and welfare of some few
depended upon the poverty and the
misery of the many. Many talked
about equality and the brotherhood
of man, but how could the brother
hood of man become a realization
when the laws of men and kings
were directed towards the enslave
men of the many for the profit of a
few.
Instead they endeavored and very
unsuccessfully to adjust the teach
ings of Christ to the economic con
ditions of the time, and its woful
failure has ended in wars and acci
dents and death and disoase and
crime and poverty and wretched
ness and discontent.
The Christian religion became
churchianity pure and simple, the
prayers that voiced an expression ot
love and brotherhood became Up
service merely, and we know now
that it did not stir the blood an4
heart and soul of men as truth
which would triumph over every
thing and be a light and guide and
lantern to their feet.
If men believed in Christ as the
Savior literally, what would the
orders of a Kaiser or a Tzar or a
King or a Country be in the face of
the Truth of God persisting and
lasting" If men believed tho story
of the Nazarene and that he was
the son of God and that what he
said went, what he taught would go
despite Kings or Kaisers.
But we know different. We
know that Christianity in the literal
sense was not an existing fact. The
Churches themselves led the doubt
ing and the skeptical. They fought
like savages about their trifling In
terpretations. They began early
enough to act like swine and covet
the things of earth like filthy misers.
The Golden Hole to them was no
thing except a principle of morality
well enough between a chosen few;
the principle of human brotherhood
did not transcend national or class
boundary lines. Christ taught to
turn the other cheek to tho smiter
clergymen blessed warships, battle
flags and great cannon. Divine
service to Christ is even held in the
trenches when men are to be later
turned loose to kill!
Is any sane person going to be
lieve that the same God is autho
rizing tho killing of British by Ger
mans or Germans by British and that
both sides are right? Is any sau9
person going to believe that the
Supreme Being is reddening his
hand with human blood for sheer
lust of human suffering and human
misery and human terror?
And when we see this condition
prevailing are we going to believe
that it is the religion of Him who
passed no sorrow by, or the religion
of the savage that murders his son
to appease an angry devil?
There was more candor in the
days of pagans, more even in the
days of the Robber Borons who took
when they had the power and in
vited him to keep who could. The
Red Hand of Ulster was the nation
al symbol of a pagan day. It was
symbolical of the Right of Might.
But there was no hypocrisy about it
It was red with the lust of conquest
and scarlet with the glory of power.
At least it asked no blessing upon
its carnage; no sacrifices for its
success in foray; no prayers for its
brutal raids and conquests.
Its followers were men of war with
hands against the world whose
hands in turn were against them.
They never expected that their gory
deeds would redound to the grea v
honor and glory of any God, least
of all their own. They did not pause
in the lust of battle to pray forgive
ness of their deeds of butchery, nor
enroll themselves under a banner
typical of blood and iron to be
washed again in the sign and blood
of the Lamb. Their lives were no
blasphemy and no ecclesiastical
writers were able to console them
selves with the fact that their deeds
of rapine, their orgies of lust, their
conquering atrocities, their fiendish
cruelty, their determination to kill
and maim and wound would be the
signal for a return of a religion
which proclaimed as its basis of
fact in word and deed that men are
all brethren and that we should do
as we are done by.
However we are living now in
different times. These are the days
when the nations claim for one an
other war upon a higher plane.
These are the days when higher ex
plosives also make for a higher ci
vilization, and scientific slaughter
on the battlefield also means a re
turn to the religion of love.
It’s for those who read this news
to pride themselves upon the day
they llvy in, and the advances which
the race has made.
Today we can reconcile the wor
ship of him who loved little children
and suffered them to come unto him,
by rushing the kids off to the facto
ry to make profits for a million
dollar mill company. Today we
teach in church that the Sabbath
day is to be Kept holy and tho profits
of the steel barons from Sunday
labor furnishes the church with
stained glass windows or a pulpit.
Today is taught that no treasures
should be laid up lest they rust and
are consumed by the moth, that It is
as hard for a camel to pass through
the eye of a needle as for a rich
man to reach the Kingdom Come
and religion depends for its support
now mainly upon the genorosity ot
the multi-millioned, and excels it
self in hoarded wealth.
With this the normal condition
through times of peace, is it any
wonder that this war is productive
of anomalies?
We should say not. We should
say the very minute that men began
adjusting and explaining away an
interpreting a doctrine to suit them
j selves and especially such of them
I selves as were strong in position and
! in state and power that very minute
! men began to doubt those doctrines;
^belief ^in the reality of^thinra be;
’came1 belief in *the reality of things
subject to an material-interest ex
planation which could be relied
upon to hurt no feelings of those
in power.
In this world men either believe
or disbelieve. There is no mean.
The skeptic is no more a possibility
than the doubter. There is no sucn
thing as Browning's Blougram who
says “better a life of faith diversified
with doubt, than one of doubt di
versified with faith”. Both are on3
and the same thing juggled into
differences through a juggling of
words.
If men believe, their whole lives
will be guided by their belief. It’s
the unerring test; the proof that
never fails. The men who believe in
the dollar will follow the dollar
through thick and thin; no doubt
ing there. The men who chase po
sition and power will chase it
though the heavens fall. In their
belief in those things there is
neither doubt nor skepticism nor
faltering. And that’s their religion
although they may call it some
thing else and profess as a religion
something that’s on their lips often
enough but never in their hearts
and never in their lives.
The rest is the vague superstiti
ous fear of the devil that drives men
to pray against his iniquity, against
his torturing shadows and against
his imagined vengeance on the
children of men. Those are the men
that “doubt”, and who hesitate as
they think between belief and dis
belief, when such very hesitation
stamps them as merely victims of
their own fears, uncertain nerve
less, praying, and doubting.
They are the offsprings of the age
that believes that their guns will
shoot straighter if they receive a
clergymen’s blessing, that thinks
that their torpedoes vrlll explode
more efficiently if launched with a
prayer, or that they will bayonet
and stab and shoot and kill more
men provided some Unknown Aid
will strengthen their right arms in
their terrible work.
It’s a hypocritical age; an age of
sham morality very much ashamed
of its sin and piteously trusting that
others will acclaim its virtue; an
age that makes life a blasphemy
and then sits down at a distance to
admire its wonderful revival of the
faith that will save mankind, be
cause it removes mountains.
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