Show FASCISM BOUND TO FALL by PROF NILES CARPENTER university of 0 duffalo buffalo communism fascism and puritanism fail because coe coercion acion breeds resistance and lets loose bigotry persecutions self righteousness and sadistic cruelty there are four possible ways in which religion may be related to the social order the first is theocracy but may be dismissed at as impracticable in the face of christendom A second form of religious attitude toward society is otherworldliness or retreat from the actualities of eve everyday ry life A third is to suppress religion but this too has failed in the past fascism is a religion of the state essentially as zealous and bloody as the moloch worship of the ancient world A society that is governed by masters who are controlled merely by their own sordid desires and egotistic whims is not like likely y to survive the fourth alternative is a society animated by a regard for ideals and aspirations that are beyond matter of fact demonstrations no man can prove the existence of these ideals or these spiritual forces it can be said however that they are universal to human experience and that today no less than in remotest antiquity they give meaning purpose and strength to human life |