SUFFERING FOOLS GLADLY
Sir,-in your article the "Church takes the offensive,’ Archdeacon W. Bullock is quoted as saying that "he dees not suffer fools gladly." Apart from the fact that the foolish are in no way responsible for their foolishness, but are to be pitied rather, may I draw the attention of the Archdeacon to Matthew 5-22, where we read: "but whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire."
CHRISTIAN
(Auckland)
(Archdeacon Bullock replies: It would be a@ queer world in which, as your correspondent asserts, the fool was no longer held responsible for his foll¥y, not even the fool who says in his heart "There is no God." Yet it is easy to understand the craving for immunity from the consequences of folly. "Christian" must find our real world very hard. Matthew 5-22 will not help much tili we know what kind of a fool was meant. For fools are of many varieties-from Dan Leno, who was a public benefactor, to Hitler, who is an international nuisance).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 172, 9 October 1942, Page 3
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172SUFFERING FOOLS GLADLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 172, 9 October 1942, Page 3
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