"Your booklet in a fine statement."--Henry Noble MacCracken, former president of Vassar College.
"Its contents are undeniable facts. . . . It is a masterpiece, and should accomplish the purpose for which it was written."--Thomas L. Clarke, Justice of the Peace, Brown City, Michigan.
"I have placed it in the Library of International House where I am sure it will be profitably read and appreciated."--Helen Taubenblatt, Director of Admissions, International House, Chicago.
"It will prove a fine addition to our reference shelves."--Jean M. Murdock, Librarian, Public Library, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
". . . it will be the re-making of the world."--Elcanor V. Young, Boston.
"I agree with every word in the book."--Carl C. Taylor, former president of the American Sociological Society.
"If at any time you form an active unit of this sort, I should like to be considered for membership."--Herbert J. Redfern, Keene Teachers College, Keene, New Hampshire.
Just Another Brain-Washing Sect?
Is One Religion just another brain-washing sect to divide religious people still further? There is a vast difference between an inclusive Brotherhood, modern in outlook and knowledge, where varying points of view are adjusted in the search for a fuller brotherhood, and the excluding, binding authoritative tradition built up over the centuries about a personal Savior or a chosen people.
One Religion is free to evaluate--free to accept or reject on the basis of quality alone. It is truth-seeking. Adherents believe that an earnest, intelligent search yields far more religious truth than the blind acceptance of the tradition of any sect.
Sectarianism is blindly propagandic. A sect has been defined as a group with closed minds who propagate what it already "knows" is the truth. Sectarians who mistake gullibility for faith are prisoners within the shell of their own sectarian tradition--no matter how fine or how foul the shell.
Brain washing, begun as early as possible and continued throughout life, is the sectarian process. Prospective clerics are brain-washed for years.
Each sect has its own "reforms" from time to time and may talk of "unity," but that is like clipping a few whiskers off the sectarian tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact.
IF YOU PREFER INTELLIGENT CHOICE OF RELIGION TO BLIND ACCEPTANCE OF FAMILY TRADITION WHICH KEEPS RELIGIOUS PEOPLE DIVIDED, ONE RELIGION OF BROTHERHOOD MAY BE THE ANSWER TO YOUR NEED. Joseph I. Arnold, Ph.D. '34 16 Garden Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138