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Indianapolis Indiana Jewish Post (Newspaper) - February 26, 1965, Indianapolis, IndianaReligion not useful to the intellectual first of a series by rabbi Sherwin t. Wine in a recent conversation with a College instructor i asked him what lie thought about religion. He replied that the question was interesting but unimportant since be spent absolutely no time thinking about the matter. In fact be Quot could t care less Quot. Religious doctrine was in no Way useful to the solution of academic and practical problems with which he dealt. Tie instructor s answers highlighted a frightening problem for religionists. In University cuties where the intellectual leadership of our society is spawned there exists an almost Universal indifference to what traditional or modern Faith has to offer. One can pursue an investigation in any social or natural science without any need to cite god As a causal Factor. One can probe the sensitive area of human values without any desire to invoke divine Sanction. Fifty years ago there existed a the academic Community tremendous hostility to religious institutions. In France. Italy and Russia the anti clerical movements were assessed by their hatred. Even in America atheism was profoundly Felt. Today men of learning treat the doctrines of religion with amused contempt that one reserves for eccentric old people. It is the patrol Iziagu indulgence that one directs to what is both useless and harmless. Boredom has replaced anger the Yawn has taken the place of the clenched fist. Hatred at least is a tribute to the importance of what your opponent is saying. Polite indifference is the ultimate insult and the deadliest. There Are three reasons Why the conventional teaching of religion Are both irrelevant and useless within the framework of the Universy discipline. Firstly the motivating doctrines of established religion Are too nebulous to be meaningful. Science historically has taken objects and forces that were poorly defined and striven to make them More specific by analysis and measurements. Even the psychologist seeks to take the chronic vagueness of human emotion and dissect its reality. But the theologians seem to enjoy lie reverse procedure. They take objects and concepts which in their a a primitive stage were cleared and specific and work hard to make them More nebulous. God in ancient times was a rather distinct person with easily defined spatial and temporal characteristics. As the embarrassment of sophisticated believers increased he suddenly found himself thrust out of space and time into the limbo of what is called the a supernatural Quot. When he re entered reality in modern times he had dissolved into the nothingness of a pervading purpose that defied description or a unique uni no one will speak for publication brakes seem applied on Boycott of West Germany rabbi so Erwin t. Tee Complete Versal Force that no one could measure. For those theologians that found this definition frighteningly specific he ended up As a the ground of being Quot or a something bigger than me out there Quot. Like the emperor s clothes in Andersen a fairy tales one could never put his Finger on its reality. How then can scientists Deal effectively with the problem of human destiny by using religious notions that prefer the safety of vagueness secondly historic religion a committed to the closed system of knowledge. Modern learning on the other hand is based on the open system. All statements of belief must be conditional deriving their truth from available evidence no assertion about the world is closed to the refutation of new experience. 1 therefore have no belief that 1 am unwilling to change if the evidence proves me wrong in fact i Welcome the Challenge of new facts. In my honest Pursuit of the truth i have no fixed conclusions which i must reach. Despite the intellectual veneer of theological study religious scholars have pretty Well reached their set conclusions before they begin their rational investigations. Thomas Aquinas a knew Quot that god existed before he set out to demonstrate this a fact Quot and was certainly not prepared to reject this doctrine if his argument proved to be inadequate. Maimonides a a knew that the ten commandments were morally valid even before he clarified their usefulness just As Paulmann Kohler accepted the chosen character of the jewish people prior to gathering the historic evidence to prove his Contention. Of what value then is a research project where the scholar involved has reached his conclusion before he starts the research of what use is the Pursuit of truth where certain conclusion enjoy the Security of being eternally Correct there is something dishonest about try continued on next Page Bond sales in 65 near 25 million Miami Beach a a tremendous Sale of Israel Bonds in the first 45 Days of 1965 was reported Here at the International inaugural conference of the Israel Bond organization. The amount of Bonds sold this year was announced at 124, 700,000, a record figure. The goal for this year is $100,000,000, an increase of $1s million Over last year s sales. Praise for americans who Are aiding Israel came from the nations vice president Hubert Humphrey who told the 2000 in attendance they were helping a construct a nation where Freedom flourishes a Israel birth rate decline stemmed Jerusalem a the decline in the birth rate through the 1950s has been stemmed and a now levelling off it was announced by the Central Bureau of statistic. Figures for the past three years show 22 births per thousand population. New York a the brakes were apparently being applied this week to an incipient jewish Boycott of West Germany. No jewish organization or Agency has As yet come out in favor of a Boycott and probably none will. The presidents conference was to meet tuesday on the question. Some National jewish organizations took counsel together on the question last week but no statement was issued nor is any expected. Meanwhile the three Large National concerns who have individually announced they were instituting their own Boycotts May be left out on a limb. The state department in Washington took a position opposing any Boycott and ambassador Heinrich Knappstein of West Germany got assurances from Secretary of state Dean Rusk who sail he might take up the matter in a press conference. The Statt department issued a statement which said in part a was a matter of principle we do not favor private Boycotts As a measure of retaliation. This policy applies no matter what the reason or the inspiration for such a Boycott Quot. One of the first jewish manufacturers to take Boycott action Michael Daroff has Learned that he might be called to Washington by the state department for a discussion. He told newsmen he Learned of such an invitation from Lawrence Phillip executive vice president of the Phillips Van Heusen corporation that had also announced it was discontinuing purchases from West Germany. The third . Jewish firm to act was Philip Rothenberg amp co. Daroff said he took the action on his own initiative and that he would not permit his firm to do business a with anyone who lets himself be blackmailed by any dictator Quot. A live lost my respect for the West German government a be said. �?o1 think any american jewish or not would take the same stand Quot. Daroff chairman and president of botany industries is a brother of Sam Daroff who is Active in National jewish affairs. The spontaneous Boycott could grow with or without word from National jewish organizations. The anger of the . Jewish Community Over Bonne a yielding to Nasser s blackmail and cutting off arms shipments to Israel was clearly evident. Ambassador Knappstein expressed criticism of a full Page and placed by the jewish War veterans of America in the new York times last week. The and conveyed its disappointment in West Germany s action in cutting off Aims shipments to Israel in Strong terms. The ambassador sail the advertisement was a unfair and unjust to say the least Quot. Says it has no mandate editor raps presidents conference Houston a a Strong Challenge of the presidents conference was issued Here by David h. White publisher of the jewish Herald voice. Askin amp a what is this conference of jewish presidents or organizations whom does it represent what Powers does it have for whom does it speak and Why a a White asserted editorially that the conference presented a a sorry spectacle Quot. He pointed out that there was duplication in that a some of the presidents of these organizations Are elected by delegates from other a what right has a president of a coordinating Agency to act As a self appointed member of this body a the editorial declared it was referring to the National Community relations advisory Council the synagogue Council of America the american zionist Council and the american Israel affairs committee or any other organization which represents other organizations and has no constituency of its own. White charged that a the once informal conference of presidents is contemplating calling itself the conference of organizations. Who gave this handful of individuals the right to Label itself thus is beyond the realm of reality. Once called together in an informal Way to help in presenting the cause of Israel to the . Government and its agencies the individuals thus designated have now become a formal organization meddling in a number of Community actions Quot. In a follow up editorial a week later. White continued the attack. A it is our belief that these beads of organizations do not speak for the jewish Community of America nor for their own organizations. We believe that so Long As they meet which is their prerogative and discuss also their right and pass on to their organizations the weighty decisions readied which is their duty the conference and the presidents Are on solid ground a but when they begin to recommend to the communities a course of action when they begin to legislate for the Community As a Whoie a we Are inclined to say a Stop and Back up a does the Post and opinion carry More advertising now than at any time in its history the answer is simple.,?, our advertisers get results

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