Ultimately Freedom Is Necessary For A Society,

When A Church Reaches Up Beyond Its Group And Tries To Enforce Its Standards Upon A Society That Doesn't Accept These Standards, And Perhaps For Good Reason, Perhaps For Bad Reason, But Anyway This Is The Problem We Face In Pluralistic Society, That Not Necessarily Every Standard That Every Church Tries To Enforce Upon The Society Is From The Society's Standpoint A Good Standard.

Now When The Historic Religions Give Trivial Answers To These Very Tragic Questions Of Our Day, When An Evangelist Says, For Instance, We Mustn't Hope For A Summit Meeting, We Must Hope In Christ Without Spelling Out What This Could Mean In Our Particular Nuclear Age. This Is The Irrelevant Answer, When Another Evangelist Says If America Doesn't Stop Being Selfish, It Will Be Doomed. This Is Also A Childish Answer Because Nations Are Selfish And The Question About America Isn't Whether We Will Be Selfish Or Unselfish, But Will We Be Sufficiently Imaginative To Pass The Reciprocal Trade Acts.

...(i)ndividual Selfhood Is Expressed In The Self's Capacity For Self-transcendence And Not In Its Rational Capacity For Conceptual And Analytic Procedures.

I Think I Have One Answer, That Is Partly Religious And Partly Secular; And That Is To Say, We Ought To At Least Recognize That We And The Russians Are In A Common Predicament. That Would Be Religious In The Sense, "judge Not Lest You Be Judged."

A Wise Architect Observed That You Could Break The Laws Of Architec75tural Art Provided You Had Mastered Them First. That Would Apply To Religion As Well As To Art. Ignorance Of The Past Does Not Guarantee Freedom From Its Imperfections.