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Timebinder, v. 1, issue 4, 1945
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EVERY DAY RELGION By Leslie A. Croutch I've read both THE TIME-BINDERs through carefully. Reading them brought a lot of thoughts to my mind, most of which have been with me for years, some of which came to be as flashes from time to time. As these thoughts and memories were inspired by what I read, I'm going to discuss them with you briefly for what they may be worth. Although I'm 39, I can't say I've worked out any philosophy that I can lay my finger on. Maybe I have and don't realize it. Too many people are like that. They have a real, live, working philosophy of life and yet do not realize it. Maybe I'm one of those. I know I do believe in the old adage of "live and let live" and I also believe in the rule of "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." At times I even try to practice it. I practice it in material ways, I fear, for I seem to be more of a materialist than anything else just now. Religion seems to be a funny point with fans. So many seem to think that to admit they have a religion, that they believe in a Higher Being is to admit that they are mentally a bit off, that they were silly, weak-kneed morally. They act as if to have a religion is something of which to be ashamed. Although I don't go to church, and have no professed religion, yet I do declare myself unreservedly as believing in a Supreme Being, and After Life, and have gradually evolved a picture of what I believe my God to be. I was born a Protestant. The only church or Sunday school I went to actively was the Baptist church. I was never baptized for I never believed in it, and as long as that reservation was in my mind I never though any sort of man-made savings could work on me. I always figured God would know a believer whether he went to church or not, took any vows or not. Although I say I went actively to the Baptist church, yet that does not say I have never gone to another at one time or another. I went when young to the Salvation Army meetings, and today I believe in the Salvation Army and its work among men more than I believe in any other religious body, for the simple reason the Army seems to work and sympathize with the poor, the underdog, the unassuming, more than does any other church. I don't believe unreservedly in the Old Testament, yet I do in the New. I believe in Christ, yet I believe the Old Testament is more a history of the trials and tribulations of the Hebrew people more than anything else. Yet I admit the gold to be found in the advice and the philosophies found in the Old Testament, and have often thought that if man scrapped ALL his mundane laws and took the Ten Commandments and adhered to them without reservations, how much better the world might be, for I have very often 11
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EVERY DAY RELGION By Leslie A. Croutch I've read both THE TIME-BINDERs through carefully. Reading them brought a lot of thoughts to my mind, most of which have been with me for years, some of which came to be as flashes from time to time. As these thoughts and memories were inspired by what I read, I'm going to discuss them with you briefly for what they may be worth. Although I'm 39, I can't say I've worked out any philosophy that I can lay my finger on. Maybe I have and don't realize it. Too many people are like that. They have a real, live, working philosophy of life and yet do not realize it. Maybe I'm one of those. I know I do believe in the old adage of "live and let live" and I also believe in the rule of "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." At times I even try to practice it. I practice it in material ways, I fear, for I seem to be more of a materialist than anything else just now. Religion seems to be a funny point with fans. So many seem to think that to admit they have a religion, that they believe in a Higher Being is to admit that they are mentally a bit off, that they were silly, weak-kneed morally. They act as if to have a religion is something of which to be ashamed. Although I don't go to church, and have no professed religion, yet I do declare myself unreservedly as believing in a Supreme Being, and After Life, and have gradually evolved a picture of what I believe my God to be. I was born a Protestant. The only church or Sunday school I went to actively was the Baptist church. I was never baptized for I never believed in it, and as long as that reservation was in my mind I never though any sort of man-made savings could work on me. I always figured God would know a believer whether he went to church or not, took any vows or not. Although I say I went actively to the Baptist church, yet that does not say I have never gone to another at one time or another. I went when young to the Salvation Army meetings, and today I believe in the Salvation Army and its work among men more than I believe in any other religious body, for the simple reason the Army seems to work and sympathize with the poor, the underdog, the unassuming, more than does any other church. I don't believe unreservedly in the Old Testament, yet I do in the New. I believe in Christ, yet I believe the Old Testament is more a history of the trials and tribulations of the Hebrew people more than anything else. Yet I admit the gold to be found in the advice and the philosophies found in the Old Testament, and have often thought that if man scrapped ALL his mundane laws and took the Ten Commandments and adhered to them without reservations, how much better the world might be, for I have very often 11
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