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Freedom
War is now raging in the East to stop a political philosophy— Communism. Communism is a way of life, a materialistic way of life.
You can’t fight ideas with guns; you fight ideas with ideas. The war against communism can be won by supplanting this political philosophy with Christian faith.
In every manner the Christian faith teaches the opposite to the teaching of communism: Christianity teaches the sacredness of human personality, because man is the creation of God, because Gfd gave Himself through Christ for man, and because God is just, holjr, merciful, a God of love— and'thus main should be. Christian faith is also an idea, an ideal. Some Christians reach the goal to a greater degree than others, and all sincere Christians try to reach the perfection of the ideal.
One ideal of the Christian faith is freedom—political and religious. We in America have both and we realize the fight necessary to keep it. Vigilantly must freedom be guarded at home. At the present time our freedom is endangered by other agencies equally as threatening as communism.
A threat to our freedom can be seen in the attitude of indifference toward graft, greed, and trickery in government; indifference toward moral decay; indifference to the cheapening of human life. Read the city papers and notice the borrow stories of crimes, many in varying forms of sadism. Read of the number of deaths over the July 4 holiday, and note the little concern of the public concerning the wholesale holiday slaughter. Human life appears to be cheapening in the public mind.
A threat to our freedom gathers the same indifference in the question of America’s tradition of separation of church and state.
The Bill of Rights was not in the Constitution at the time of adoption and a bill of rights was not in the early framework of the laws of this state. The early Baptist forefathers were among the strongest advocates of the idea of complete religious freedom, as was shown by letters from and to Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and others. Baptists of Virginia were advocates of religious freedom being the law of the land in both state and national governments, and through the years, the Baptists have waged a continuous struggle to maintain this separation of church and state.
The Baptist strict adherence to religious freedom holds the full meaning, not just religious tolerance. They stood alone in opposing the idea (during the early formulating of laws in the state) that all religious societies should share alike from tax money, for they held that complete separation of church and state was the mily form of religious freedom. *^hey held then, and still hold today, that wherever the two are together the church becomes corrupted with the idea' df its being the supreme agency on earth, and
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