SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Polsky, Ned
following day. Any connection with the have psychoanalysts who also profess election was denied although officials in to be devout Catholics, a spectacle which the Pentagon acknowledged they...
...Nixon, may be a far greater danger to Nixonism is McCarthyism with its the Republic than Joe McCarthy...
...On the contrary, he is frightened to death of this...
...Further, he’s without Joe, after all, stuck by his Cohn and Schinel Dick has a masterly eye for the main chance...
...As Andrew Dickson White remarked about the Church’s position on a scientific discovery which conflicts with dogma, “First they denounce it violently, then they admit it quietly, and finally they deny they were ever against it...
...We only on this one special area of science: think of the careers of people like Gregory Zilboorg...
...His swings are wilder and miss their mark...
...But what honest man wouldn’t prefer, if that’s the word, to find himself covered from head to foot with good clean mud sliing by Joe’s shovel...
...remain there...
...By whom...
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...at him, this preposterous image of the clean-cut, Anglo-Saxon, middle class lad...
...Never before in the history of America have scientist and theologian worked so well togther...
...Science and Religion in America Ned Polrky AMERICA NOW HAS A LARGE intellectual industry devoted to showing that there is no conflict between science and religion, an industry that is but one aspect of the increasing general tendency to play down elements of conflict in American life...
...A hot shower and it’s off...
...All our scientists seem to be like the physicist whom Herbert Spencer castigated because “when he entered his oratory he shut the door of his laboratory...
...The Republicans, like the Democrats before them, counted on “prosperity” for votes, and counted on war preparations for prosperity...
...shadow shaved off...
...circuit in the off-season...
...The “Committee of l e n Million for Justice for Joe” (are there that many retired Admirals and Vice-Admirals in the country...
...Oratory” is here used in the sense of a private chapel...
...Any connection with the have psychoanalysts who also profess election was denied although officials in to be devout Catholics, a spectacle which the Pentagon acknowledged they could should make Catholics shudder no less not remember a single past ocasion than the psychoanalysts...
...7 h e Scientific Outlook) Let us not make the mistake of thinking that this is motivated by the no- stretch itself and desire peace...
...Can Dick go further than Joe...
...So it went...
...McCarthy seems wounded to the quick...
...I t is of the essence of the higher, multi90 Winter 1955 DISSENT courses bearing some such rubric as first came to life we could afford to laugh “Social Pathology...
...Detroit 4. Mi...
...Tracing the causes of this historical shift is a key problem for American sociology...
...On the level of social role-taking, the priest no longer conceives of himself as different from ordinary men, no longer acts the role of one set apart by virtue of a higher calling...
...The Vice Presidency is notorioiisly the trap door to oblivion...
...Robert Ingersoll), knew that they were enaaged in a fight in which no compromise was possible...
...worse still, his thunder seems to have been stolen, organized, planified and institutionalized-even bureaucratized...
...But still he will have contritlited something to our history: the first High School hov voted “most-likely-to-siicceed” who-wcceeded...
...His star may already have reached its zenith...
...It is McCarthyism Joe McCarthy is an upstart and a systematized, made palatable for the respectable and the decent, brought into primitive...
...For permanent immunity from such professional harmonizers, one can again prescribe a dose of Nietzsche: “The price of fruitfulness is to be rich in internal opposition ; one remains young only as long as the soul does not (Twilight of the Idols...
...and of the American renaissance of interest in Jung as opposed to Freud, apparently motivated chiefly by Jung’s bias in favor of religion...
...But one wonders if sociologists will be up to the job, for sociologists, too, have been caught in the general drift toward denial of conflict...
...One has renounced the great life when one renounces war...
...Their ades...
...The nails pared and cleaned, its 5 o’clock recent campaign seems to bear this out...
...No bare-knuckle, knee-in-the-groin fighter can survive that humiliation...
...Certainly that will be one of the big political doings in 1956...
...Nothing has become more alien to us than that desideratum of former times, “peace of soul,” the Christian desideratum ; there is nothing we envy less than the moralistic cow and the fat ’happiness of the good conscience...
...tion “if you can’t beat ’em, join ‘em.‘’ It is just as much motivated by the notion “if you can’t beat ’em, make ’em join you...
...When religion is threatened, its incorporative powers are tremendous...
...seems to hint at a low point in his career, although no sober man will count him out yet...
...The religionists on the one hand, favorite dodge is to claim that the al- and the old-time rationalists on the other leged atheist is critical merely of religion (e.g...
...But Jack took a High School course in public speaking, proved to be championship material on the debating team harmony with current interpretations of the “American way of Life...
...arrived -or almost so...
...The old sparks strike no fire...
...Fearing, perhaps, that some of the nervous unemployed might take this seriously, the administration announced the same day, as the Times put it, that “PENTAGON REVEALS 5 BILLION CONTRACTS...
...Star witness to the contrary: Paul Tillich...
...arguments for all sides of any question), caught on to the All-American art of cuddling up to any politician or business man, known in the trade as a “useful contact” and, before one knew it, he was 1 HOLD WITH THOSE (probably our presiding over the “world’s greatest deDick and Joe ranks have grown since the Call election) liberative body” and running an election who insist that Vice President Richard campaign for a major political party...
...Slime mixed with oil sticks much longer...
...Still, the Republicans didn’t forget that they were the Peace Party...
...The Caliban of American politics...
...When Jack, the AAB...
...Human, All-looHuman) It should not be supposed that the semantic and ideological mishmash described by Nietzsche is an exclusively Roman Catholic art...
...On the ideological level, we need mention merely that Darwinian evolutionary theory is now taught in Jesuit colleges...
...And on November 1. the voters were given a final reassurance: “MILITARY BUYING PRIMES INDUSTRY...
...Our theologians are constrained to admit the existence of atheism in uacuo, because religion, like any other ideology, derives meaning and strength from the concept of its negation ; however, they apparently cannot The American situation we have debear to admit its existence in concrete scribed hardly existed until recent decsituations involving real people...
...In Dick we have Jack Armstrong...
...He sticks close to those who represent power, he’s well set on the “inside” and he intends to scruple, will attack anyone for . . . Dick...
...By Dick Nixon...
...The prize speaker in any church lecture series is a scientist (preferably atomic) who stands up for God...
...of course, America’s first Vice-president elected via the Soap Opera trail...
...We all hate war, but war production-that has become the health of the state...
...He is grimly determined to be “modern.’’ Newspaper editors gleefully fall in line by printing pictures of priests playing baseball, nuns in the bowling alley, etc...
...The reason for the typical theological distortion of atheist criticism is perhaps best explained by Friedrich Nietzsche: visible movement...
...a Jacobin among the Neanderthals...
...91 Winkr 1955 DISSENT...
...gious man...
...On October 30 President Eisenhower sounded the Peace theme and recapitulated the charge against the Democrats...
...I t may well be, then, that the job will have to be done by radical journalists who proclaim their values freely, rather than by social scientists (that’s where he learned to find shallow with their pseudo-objectivity...
...Still, McCarthy is retreating into his cave, grunting, slobbering, bitter...
...he stumbles all over himself in his desire to conform to the Hollywood image (Bing Crosby) of the priest as “a regular guy” who is at heart “just one of the boys...
...s. P. d CORRESPONDENCE A new kind of workers paper Written...
...September Orders for Goods Give Manufacturers Biggest Lift Since ’53 Downturn...
...O’erweening ambition, which drove Dick to accept the second best spot, may have been fatal...
...Today, if sociologists discuss conflict at all,, they increasingly do so in “Higher culture is necessariIy misunderstood...
...he snarls at practically the whole Senate body, that corps of great deliberators whose tacit approval pushed him forward...
...it is rather done by emphasizing the positive goals of “peace of mind,” “peace of soul,” etc...
...Full of resentment, complaints and self-pity...
...The “men of God,” for their part, are similarly eager to avoid a fight...
...To elaborate when monthly defense contract totals had been announced before the end of the month...
...Billy Sunday, for all his absurdities, gave up a successful professional baseball career to become an evangelist ; today he would no doubt continue to play baseball, and lecture on the Y.M.C.A...
...But there’s hope for us, after all...
...The Study of Sociology...
...That i s what accounts for the standard reply of today’s theologian when confronted with the avowed atheist: “Even though you claim to be an atheist, you are really a very relias a secular institution rather than of religious faith as such...
...a trail which for him began in the cradle...
...Theoretically at least, yes...
...a word from him no longer brings the old fear and trembling...
...During their concluding campaign efforts they developed a pleasing counterpoint of Prosperity Without War as slogan and Prosperity Through War Contracts as reality...
...EISENHOWER VOWS JOBS WITHOUT WAR,” reported the Times...
...He who has but two strings on his instrument-like the scholars who, in addition to the urge for knowledge, have only the religious urge, instilled by education-does not understand those who can play on more strinp...
...Stephen forward in bluntly negative terms...
...James Joyce desmibes the process as follows: “Thus confronted, it was a trick of the pleader for orthodoxv to sucrest a posaihle reconciliation between neighbors and to suggest further that the Church would not be over hasty in condemning 89 Winter 1955 DISSENT vagaries of architecture or even the use stringed culture that it is always misof pagan emblems and flourishes so long interpreted by the lower culture-as in example, advance...
...art is conInas her ground rent was paid quarterly Catholicism so cunningly lined and in- deed, people who are only religious understand even science as a search of the religious feeling, just as deaf-mutes do not know what music is, if it is not terwoven with a studious alloy of conscience was capable under the management of a nimble spirit of performing feats of extension and contraction...
...Can Dick avoid the drop...
...Even the liberals take heart and, routing out yesterday’s despair, announce that “Joe is dead...
...As Professor Walter Kaufmann has demonstrated, “war” in the Nietzschean context must be understood as an intellectual battle, and not in the literal sense that Nazi apologists londly imagined...
...For the typical American sociologist, conflict is pathological by definition...
...After a thousand such changes of form this elastic body was suddenly detected in a change of position and a point hitherto external was seen to be enclosed within i t ; and all this imperceptibly, while the Hero) As Bertrand Russell has put it, “Theologians have grown grateful for small mercies, and they do not much care what son of God the man of science gives them so long as he gives them one at all...
...In the early days of sociology, it was taken for granted that social conflict was a major form of social interaction in all societies at all times...
...eye was lulled by the mere exhibition of so many variations executed with The denial of conflict is rarely put a certain amoeboid instinct...
...Witness his performance before the Senate committee whose report paved the way for his censure: a pitiful caricature of the old, rough-house Joe...
...Joe reduced to a political institution...
...And there is more than one way to look at Jane Russell...
...The moral doctrine of sidered happens, a fcr disguised form when of religion...
...the All-American Boy...
...Misunderstood...
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