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Show Church Must Stand for Social Justice, Shun Pettiness, Says Rabbi "If religion is to perform any worthy service in the present world crisis it must be purged of its denominational de-nominational controversies, its ec- clesiasticlsms, and its stand-pat attitude." at-titude." So said Rabbi Samuel Gordon Gor-don of the Temple B'nai Israel, in Salt Lake City, during a recent University Un-iversity of Utah lecture. Rabbi Gordon pointed to the crying need of a church that will stand uncompromisingly for1 social justice justice in a sphere that has apparently been forgotten in the religious philosophy of hte last few decades. The church must enunciate enunci-ate and interpret anew the simple yet fundamental, teachings of the worlds religious leaders. He declared de-clared that there must be more real religion, more love of man for his fellows, more attention to the development de-velopment of the inner life of man, and less quibbling and hair-splitting about the controversial Issues of theclogy. The speaker scored the attempts of the learned to draw a line of cleavage between science and religion, re-ligion, and showed conclusively that spiritual realities of life are as certain, cer-tain, and, in many cases, as demonstrable, demon-strable, as scientific realities. "Our life has been so one-sided, so much geared to the temporal and mundane mun-dane considerations of life, that it ' has stupefied the finer senses of discernment, thus leaving man little ' above the beast in his preferences," ' Rabbi Gordon said. |