CHRISTIAN ORDER.

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 172, 9 October 1942, Page 3

CHRISTIAN ORDER.

Sir-In your Editorial "Christian Order" of September 11, you stated that as the number among us who would question your view that the Christian way of life is the only sure foundation of peace, justice, liberty and kindness is negligible, therefore the Campaign for Christian Order is a campaign for moral, social and political order. I wish to question four points in that short statement. (1) Your deduction, (2) Your use of the word "negligible", (3) Your statement that Christianity is the only sure foundation for peace, etc. (4) Your statement that the Campaign for Christian Order is a campaign for moral, social, and political order. On (1). Surely no man or woman of substance can say that the opinions of the minority are either true or. false solely on the ground that they are those of a minority. On (2). In the matter of ideas surely no number is negligible. Can we take no account of an invention because the oe mind or minds happen to be few On (3). I think the last two thousand years of history should here give pause. On (4). It isn’t. It’s a campaign to get people to believe in God and go to

church,

D.K.

A.

(Christchurch).

(Our correspondent has either read us carelessly or finds it difficult to condense us accurately. We said (1) that tens of thousands of people who would hesitate to call themselves Christians would agree that the Christian way of life is the only sure foundation of peace and justice and liberty and kindness and (2) that those who would question that view are a negligible number. If we say that these are two simple statements of fact with which only a negligible number would disagree, we are not saying that those who disagree are not entitled to be heard. We are saying simply that their number is negligible by comparison with the number of those who do agree.-Ed.)