"THE GOD IDEA"
Sir.-Supposing there were a great earthquake, and years later archaeologists found only page 18 of The Listener of March 7-like one of the clay tablets of Ur. And supposing the only words legible were M. B. Soljak’s:- + + + + there was too much weighting for good measure with the God idea; however dressed, this no longer is accepted by the thinking and adult-minded among listeners as having anything whatever to do with world betterment. (There it is in cold print. The God idea. You know, just another of those ideas to be smugly pigeon-holed-like the fish-and-chip-once-a-week-for-tea-saves-Mum idea.) It might be seized on as a major clue towards assessing trends here during the last decade, Perhaps it has been already. Will prophets please displace the atom bomb as their pet cause or something.
A. K.
S.
(Marton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 5
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137"THE GOD IDEA" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 5
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