excerpt submitted by Paul Hope
“The simple truth is that dogmatic religion, which is always a manifestation of spiritual provincialism, leads straight to intolerance, and that intolerance is the matrix of persecution. That today committees composed of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews are meeting to emphasize the common elements which can unite them in brotherhood is a testimony to the kindly irenic spirit off these gentlemen. We must applaud their good will. But at the same time we cannot escape the conviction that there is no ground of a real unity possible so long as they hold to the traditional dogmas of their sects…”