The apparent moral weakness and inefficiency of the creedal churches, together with
the wider knowledge of the religions of foreign and ancient peoples, produced in many minds a critical attitude toward the church, comparable in many ways to the situation which had threatened the medieval establishment centuries before.
By removing the
wide segments
of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to
religion, the meaning
of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed
of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel
of autonomy and self - sufficiency.
The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition
of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation
of the smaller definitions
of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less
knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those
religions... The idea
of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a
wide range
of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups
of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.