Show GOT NEW IDEA OF RELIGION colonel roosevell roosevelt admitted he had taken to heart the simple faith of the doughboy colonel roosevelt was a deeply religious man and one evening tit at oyster day bay lie he said to on an editor how this world war has clarified our ideas I 1 it has clarified my own ideas about religion before the war I 1 was inclined to agree with the philosopher who nho said religion 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 liow how heartily Is our agreement when he says Reli religion glon Is betting your life on the existence of god |