“Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. …
“Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."
We've come a ways down the same road, and yet alarms are being ignored by the vast majority. What is it about human nature that allows a civilization to ignore its own decline?
Selfishness. The main thrust of secular humanism.
2 comments:
You need to be more questioning of your history: Einstein never said that, it's a misrepresentation, and its silly and illogical to boot: he purportedly claims to have once "dispised" something in which he also "never had any special interest."
If you follow the link, you will find that that quote was taken from a Time Magazine story.
As he was a Jew, although by his description 'agnostic', I hardly think he held no interest in Christianity, especially in the context of the quote you refer to.
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