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