Show GOT NEW IDEA OF RELIGION colonel roosevelt admitted he had taken to heart the simple faith of the doughboy colonel roosevelt was a deeply religious man and one evening at oyster bay lie said to an editor allow this world war has clarified our ideas it has clarified my own ideas about religion before the war I 1 was inclined to agree with the philosopher who nho said rell religion ion is the experience constituted by those thoughts feelings and actions which spring from mans sense of dependence upon power or powers controlling the universe and which have as their center of interest the cosmic fortune of values but how different Is the definition of religion that the doughboy has flung us from the trenches and how heartily Is our agreement when he says religion Is betting your life on the existence of god |