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Show Unitarianism in Utah the scholars of were names. the Europe were priests. Kings and queens there who could neither read Learning powerful man most powerful man write, not even their own and the priest was everywhere in the community, the pope the most is power in nor - Christendom emperors took orders from him. But now, all that is changed. nowhere the most learned man, no - The wonder priest nowhere the or kings and minister is most powerful longer be the teacher of the community. civic has or He less political power than men of other man. He can no professions. He is not the healer of disease nor the settler of these functions have been taken by the physician disputes and the lawyer. He cannot compete with the theater or the opera as an entertainer. That is not his business. No thinking man believes today that any priest or minister has anything to say or even knows anything about who mayor who may not enter a future heaven. For all who think, religion has it has to do with this nothing to do with a future life world alone. The world can no present longer think about a future life, as it once did. By hopeless slaves, robbed of all that could make life glad and sweet and happy or even decent here, the future life was pictured as one of rich rewards, wealth beyond measure, ease, music, pleasure, endless relief from toil and hardship. Today we are coming to see that if life continues beyond death, it cannot be very different from this life because it must be made up of exactly the same people as have composed this world. And religion is again being seen to be concerned alone with life, not death, with the present, not the future. So we are beginning to see, as Jesus did, that religion must give men and women a true and satisfying standard of values. Your only need of religion is your need of a way of seeing things and dealing with things and valuing things which will make life seem to you divinely - - 2 14 |
