Show FORUM the san juan record disclaims all responsibility for statements made in this department which Is open to readers for the expression of their personal opinions DEBATE ON COMMUNISM continued Continue dy almost every person and every ev cry body of religious people contend content t that hat religion should NOT be kept ii separated from government but should be ba made part and parcel of government in all its ramifications now this Is a very beautiful idea and not unworthy of high idealism but its sponsors fall to take into consideration some very essential and important things Iii history story bears ample proof that this idea of theocratic government Is ever present with all who whose ale imagination and enthusiasm has been fired by a sincere belief in the truth of 0 the particular religion its adherents are sponsoring naturally they all believe that theirs is the ONLY true it is evident that there can be but ONE true religion wh what at one of these are ar we to choose then it Is obvious that each pen person on woula would choose his own belief and thus separate the population of the count country ry into as many groups as there are types of religion each such group will insist that it alone is RIGHT and should formu ate a theocratic government based uron ullon its particular baruc ular religious beliefs and that the others should submit themselves to such government and submerge their own beliefs to coincide e with this one one group may be exceptionally well executed eluted and cunning planning or by sheer might force pr e the others to bow to its rule proof lies hes in the mohammedan conquests of tile the middle apes ages the spanish inquisition and the eastern church in russia under the czar but such combination of faith and force does docs riot lead to a democratic government pr or to any kind of peoples government it Is government ot of the majority by the minority usually and always is tyrannical and unfair in ili its narrowness why should one ne group of people be permitted t to 0 dictate to others the form of religion they must support or whether they must support any form of religion their perso personal naf convictions the only logical way to prevent unfairness and squabbling among the keople concerning religious matters in connection with government is to rule religion out of government to 1 keep them separated to do so does not in any wiy way interfere with the freedom of the people to td worship according to their beliefs in fact it makes much greater religious freedom possible because it prevents per of some religious bodies by bk others which might have a whip hand by being connected directly to the government any religious body which his has full control over government will cause the masses to remain uneducated and ignorant as such people are the easier to control in the interest of the dominant group and its temporal ambitions they have such sch all forms forma of religion have this in common impatience with any other views than their own and a desire that often is fanned into fanaticism to obliterate all others such fanaticism often causes the most atrocious crimes to be committed in the name of religion one might recall in this connection the witchcraft raft superstition anti and legal murders 0 of the early american settlements tc tle ments or the brutalities of the inquisition or the pel persecution of joseph smith and his followers in more recent times such a tendency makes religion understandable as a 2 motivating and controlling factor ll 11 in government when th ehg e russian people were freed from om the oppre oppression assion of the char and his eastern church they turned from oll oppressed pressed to vengeful oppressors for a time quite naturally many of them were so disgusted with religion as they had known it that they became beame quite abIle in their mad desire to rid themselves of it and its ts results perma permanently y being mostly illiterate and primitive in their modes of thought they natura naturally I 1 supposed that religion i in n general christianity especially was to blame for most of their troubles As they became more educated and required broader views they saw that rel religion gion itself might be tolerable and even desirable but that what they had experienced perien ced under the czar under the illusion that it was religion was nothing other than a means ot of keeping them ignorant and sub servant t the ruling class who we were re working with those in control of the eastern chuich for the exploitation of the masses I 1 Is it strange that in russia there is a certain abou amou amount nt of revulsion revision toward the church and that its place in ill the government has been changed from a partnership in crime to a separate institution which must stand or fall on Is own merits Is it strange that the people yet remember the th persecutions they suffered buffered in tle tile name ot religion or privations the they underwent because the only religion that was permitted to be b preached had as part of its plan the subjugation of their bodies and souls by making them absolutely dependent upon it ft for all their barthl earthly y needs it seems more to be wand eved ered at that there is now real religious I 1 freedom in russia people can cant worship as they choose there b but ut many yet believe that religion was largely responsible ie for their suffering in the past and so choose to declaim against religion in general that is their privilege too toor R D ANSWER in his discussion which has been somewhat shortened ot of religious tolerance and theocratic government my correspondent in common with millions of others arrives by good reasoning at a faulty conclusion because his premise is based on a wrong conception of both subjects there are eleven great living religions thirteen have passed away radically different and all wrong as taught and practiced but each has an all esoteric secret hidden or inner teaching not understood except by tho the few which is THE SAME IN ALL and thereby MUST BE and I 1 IS tile ONLY real religion all outer forms being merely DOGMAS man made dictates the greatest need in all the world is to awaken man to this fact and when he has succeeded in isolating that inner significant structure of which is the samp same everywhere we e shall have a universal religion li ion and a unified tho not uniform approach to deity this science and religion Is a science teaches absolute tolerance anti and tile the method by which man may come under divine guidance theocratic government does NOT teach nor impose any form of religious belief or w worship or shii it functions a as any other government except that it is under tinder the direction of divine wisdom which must bo be right and in accord with fundamental universal principles because these principles ARK ARE universal and divine they are aust just impersonal and inexorable those rhose who comply will find success and happiness in all the words imply others will inevitably fall by the wayside and eliminate themselves it is is an entirely automa automatic process I 1 have previously shown that communism is the exact antithesis of theocracy that it is bent on either world dominion or destruction found do on hate not love and for selfishness not altruism that our present government Is being manipulated toward that end by those who would supplant christianity by Sata satanism nisin |