SUNDAY EVENING DEBATE
There was a good attendance at the Swords Club Hall, Waring Taylor Street, on Sunday evening, when a debate, "Atheism v. Theism," was held between the Rationalist Association and the Waterside Workers' Debating Society. A team of three men had been selected from each society, and some good- points for each case were brought out. i
The three speakers for Theism all maintained that God is an ideal of good, which has been unconsciously striven for ever since the beginning of the world; an ideal for the betterment of the human race. These speakers all declared that: they were not conceited with the question of whether God is a Supreme Being, or some intangible Being, but with the Ideal of Good that is God.
The Rationalist speakers dealt with the histories of the different gods right from the beginning of man, and said that man's idea of God is strongly related to his economic conditions at the time. Religion is a natural growth, and that which grows decays, and it has become a scientific action to take all information doubtingly. The modern theologian, said one speaker, was ashamed of many passages in his Bible, and only took selected parts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 6
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202SUNDAY EVENING DEBATE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 6
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