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Show GODLESS CREED NO RELIGION By RABBI SAMUEL SCHULMAN, New York. Morality is not a religion. It records, it is true, human experience, but it only becomes the chief content of every "high religion." A humanism human-ism without a god defeats itself. It has no logical basis and is no religion at all. The masses of the people cannot live the high, ascetic, mature, cleansed, disinterested life without the spirit being brought home to them in terms of God in a manner which they can understand. And the saints who live that life are already in touch with God. The author should note that it. is no ncrident (hat the greatpst religious teachers attach their philosophies to !;v?s of God. We therefore believe that Judaism, with its animaged and unWsualized God, ip a spiritual religion fit for the modern man. A Jew can hs a humanist as far as moral content is concerned, but no humanist who gives up God can remain a Jew in religion. |