Show Religion Loses Cause for Existence in Conforming Conforming Conforming Con Con- forming to the Worlds World's Ideas Dy By REV HARRY BARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Baptist New York Christianity is largely on the d defensive for the simple reason that Christians have conformed themselves and their message so largely hugely to this world that they are indistinguishable from it As a matter t of fact this thia generations generation's low morals and its low philosophy are in desperate need of a I challenger and the church should be about its business busine s. s When religion harmonizes itself with the world and conforms itself to the status quo it loses its message vacates its mission and surrenders its itA reason for existence The glory of Christianity has been its non con nonconformity The fhe central problem of organized Christianity is whether it has enough Dough spiritual vigor rigor to challenge this modern age or instead is simply going goin to take the color blend of popular morality and ana popular philosophy There are plenty of so-called so Christians whose morality it would be difficult to distinguish from the morality of the crowd Our democratic confidence in a majority vote makes that easy Of course on any fine issue the majority is sure to be wrong We know this and yet there is prodigious pressure in a democracy where politically it is a point of honor to respect majority decisions We feel eel also that it is not so bad to conform to the general average and the majority vote ote A Christianity that thus compromises with popular morality instead of challenging it has lost its reason for existence I |