Religion: Antichrist's Ethic

"Beliefs are decisive. Beliefs made the Ten Years [1940-49] what they were. Catastrophic beliefs engendered catastrophe." Thus highbrow British Author Frederick A. Voigt, a member of the Church of England, diagnoses the illnesses of the times. The articles of modern man's creed, says Voigt, in England's Roman Catholic magazine The Month, are:

"Religion without God; Christianity without Christ; Christ without Antichrist; Heaven without Hell; works without faith; a God of Love but not of Wrath; a Church that can bless but cannot curse.

"We believe that God, almighty and incarnate, is but a benevolent Spirit; that Satan does not exist; that Christ was the author of an ethical code, but not the Godhead crucified. We profess to believe that He existed, for agnosticism is no longer the fashion. We believe that the Gospels must conform with our time and not our time with the Gospels . . .

"All articles of our creed can be summed up in one phrase: 'the Christian ethic.' The 'Christian ethic' is the Antichrist of the Western world. It is the most insidious and formidable corruption that ever afflicted that world . . .

"In what is our hope? In the famine and thirst! The danger ... is that the hunger and the thirst will be stilled by the frothy pabulum of the 'Christian ethic,' and that the people will be full and yet not fed. But there are signs . . . that the people no longer 'love to have it so.' In the gnawing hunger and the burning thirst is our only hope: 'Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.' ''