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Politics, Art, Religion - part 6
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Articles In This Section:
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 1
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 2
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 3
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 4
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 5
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 6
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 7
· Politics, Art, Religion - part 8
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Someone has rightly said that every civilization is built around the core of a religion. One can just as truly say that conversation cannot soar to its proper heights if it consciously by-passes man's supreme problem and interest — how to get to heaven. Great conversation, even if it is not directly about religion, must flutter about in the light of it. When Milton was looking for a theme for his masterpiece, he concluded that the most vital topic in the world was the ways of God to man, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Man's highest form of public speaking is the sermon. De Quincey called "The weekly sermons of Christendom . . . that vast pulpit literature." So man's most vital conversation is talk about religion.
It should not be avoided as a topic; it should on the contrary be striven for and worked up to as often as time and place permit. It is said that people are yearning for more religious knowledge and certitude. If they are true to their spiritual nature, they certainly are. To deny them that search in conversation is to drive them to bridge and golf, good things but not as good as throwing ideas about in conversation.
However, the more important a topic is the more wisely and ably ought it to be managed. Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici wrote something to the effect that virtually only religion and morality are worth arguing about but that one has no business doing it if one cannot do it well. He wrote,
I have no Genius to disputes in Religion; and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disadvantage, or when the cause of Truth might suffer in the weakness of my patronage. . . . Every man is not a proper Champion for Truth, nor fit to take up the Gauntlet in the cause of Verity (Part 1, Sec. 6).
All the rules for good conversation and discussion hold for the topic of religion, plus a few more. One must be doubly sure that one knows what one is talking about, or else play the role of listener and questioner, reserving one's judgment. More than ever, one must be able to be good-natured in the discussion. No matter how much it means to a person, he must not argue angrily or harshly. This point needs particular emphasis, because in discussing religion one is dealing with a topic on which one may not compromise. One may not for the sake of good-fellowship agree to anything which in conscience one believes to be wrong.
How to be intolerant of error yet tolerant and kindly and sympathetic toward those whom we believe in error is the problem and the achievement of the gracious Christian conversationalist, according to St. Paul's ideal. If anyone cannot embody this ideal reasonably well, then he ought to avoid religious discussion. In all but religious disputes, as Sir Thomas Browne says, "so much as there is of passion, so much there is of nothing to the purpose" (op. cit., Part II, Sec. 3). I think you can most easily acquire the faculty of kindliness in religious discussion if you recognize clearly that if everybody had the full truth or saw all its implications, then talk would be superfluous. Therefore, instead of being irritated by people's errors, you should be glad of the opportunity of being apprized of them, for only so can you try to correct them. Perhaps one should feel about error as a young American felt when he witnessed the first bullfight. He said, "Lord, I do not want any bullfighter to get hurt, but if it be Thy will that one is to get hurt, let it happen while I am here to see it!" If no one were ever in error, how could we perform the blessed work mentioned by St. James (5:20), namely, that of bringing a sinner back from his "misguided way," which means saving a soul from death and covering a multitude of sins. Instead, therefore, of being angry at people in error we ought rather to welcome the opportunity their error represents.
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