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Religious Instruction 309
conquest, the passion for mastery, the instinct
of gain. It will be felt that mixing up God in
the standards of human passions is blasphem-
ous. People will see, that patriotism, nour-
ished on egoism and ambition, is the most
godless thing because the most inhuman of all
the life-perverting sins with which man out-
rages the holiness of life.
Intellects which can now pass over the con-
tradiction between Christianity and war, which
can even derive strength and consolation from
them, have been depraved by the ideas forced
upon mankind through thousands of years.
’Nothing more can be expected from men of
such brains, than that they should die in the
wilderness, without ever obtaining a sight of
the promised land.
But the brains of children can be protected
from the most unholy of all mental miscon-
ceptions, from the superstition that the pa-
triotism, and the nationalism, which injures
the rights of others, have something in com-
mon with ideas about God.
Let children be taught that national char-
acteristics, the use of force, the right of
independent action, is as essential for a people
as for an individual, that it is worth every sac-
rifice. Let them be taught that, on their
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