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Religious Instruction 285
allowing children to read the Bible undis-
turbed, without the need of pedagogical or
dogmatic explanation. At home this book, like
other children’s books, should be only talked
about and explained when the child requests it.
It should never be treated as a school book or
appear on the school desk. If the child gets
impressions in this way from the Bible, freed
from all other authority, apart from the sub-
jective one of the impressions themselves, the
myths of the Bible will no more contradict the
rest of his instruction, than the Scandinavian
story of creation or the Greek legends of the
gods.
But the most dangerous of all educational
mistakes in influencing humanity, is due to the
fact, that children are now taught the Old
Testament account of the world as absolute
truth, although it wholly contradicts their phy-
sical and historical instruction. Besides child-
ren learn to regard the morality of the New
Testament as absolutely binding, while its
commands are everywhere seen to be trans-
gressed by the child, the moment he takes his
first step into life. Our whole industrial and
capitalistic society rests on a contradiction of
the Christian command to love one’s neigh-
bour as one’s self. The capitalistic axiom is
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