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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930. 9 Universities Spreading Atheism Father Conway at K. of C. Forum Scores AntiChristian Teaching of Pagan Professors and Activities of Atheist Association American universities are part for the spread of atheism country today because of the pagan professors, the Rev. charged yesterday afternoon? in an address on "Atheism in the United States and the Church's Answer" at the forum sponsored by the Columbus Council, K.

of at the Columbus Ciub, 1 Prospect Park West. "Many of our American young men have left their homes strongly convinced of the truth of their traditional theism and Christianity only to return to them after four years out and out atheists," he declared. "Why? First, because, like sponges, they absorbed without question the anti-theistic and antiChristian views of their dogmatizing professors and second, because they lived pagan lives omitting the prayers taught them by their good mothers and neglecting out of hu- respect their religious duties. "Easy To Forget" "We can lose interest God just as we may lose interest in our work or in our friends. We can forget that we have souls to save, especially if we spend our spare time helping to destroy the souls of others.

"There is a cruder form atheism met with among, the uneducated which is fostered by the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. This society has adopted as its slogan Voltaire's 'ecraser l'infame' which it translates kill the Enemy of Religion truths. "Easily Dismiss Religion" "Just as the illogical private judgment of the Sixteenth Century "This organization is the outspoken enemy of morals and religion, which it tries vainly to discredit by every possible device. Its leaders froth at the mouth when they mention God, Jesus Christ or any gospel teaching and they see red when they mention our government's recognition of God in its appointment of lains in the Army and Navy; its Thanksgiving proclamations, its nontaxation of church property, its sanctioning of religious marriages, its laws against contraception and the like. Answer Not Far To Seek "If any one should ask me why so many men persist in denying the existence of God despite the clear testimony of reason and the general consent of most peoples since the beginning of the world the answer is not far to seek.

Just as the human will can freely and deliberately sin against the light and do the most abominable things, SO the human mind can defiantly and illogically deny the most self-evident revolt set aside in its anger the old infallible Church of Christ, so the descendants of the Anglo-German reformers today set aside the theism directly responsible in large among the youth of this anti-Christian teaching of Bertrand L. Conway, C. S. of their forbears, dismiss with a disdainful wave of the hand all belef in, a personal God and reject religion-man's acknowledgment of a Supreme Being and his utter dependence upon Him -as an outworn superstition. Catholics know to a certainty that God exists and we know positively what He is, but only in a very dim and inadequate way.

The agnostic is most illogical when he admits the existence of a First Cause behind created things and then dismisses Him as utterly unknowable merely because he cannot picture the infinite and the selfevident in his imagination. know God in His works and this is a true knowledge, however inadequate." Questions and answers follow: "Picturing Infinite Being" Q. Is not the idea of God unthinkable? A. Many unbelievers state that the idea of God is unthinkable, whereas they mean that it is impossible for the imagination to picture an Infinite Being. Herbert Spencer, for example, granted the existence of God but said that we can know nothing of Him, that He is unknowable.

The church's concept of God is formed in two ways, negatively and positively. We say that infinite, immense and unchangeable, denying thereby that He is measurable, limited or subject to change. Positively we assert all perfection of Him, as when we call Hun omnipoteni, omniscient and all knowing, or, even better, all intelligence, love, wisdom, truth and beauty. To Hear Father Walsh Q. When may be expect to hear from the scheduled speaker from Russia? A.

Father Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., of Georgetown University will speak here next Sunday evening. Father Walsh was sent by the Pope to Russia to distribute moneys to the starving Russians and has just written a book on "The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire." Born Without Conscience Q. Is it possible for a man to come into this world devoid of conscience or with an unfalthful conscience? A. Yes; many persons are born imbeciles or morons.

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Is atheism on the increase in the United States? A. No. I do not think so. Atheism will not grow here. We are not any more prone to atheism than to Communism.

Evil and Belief in God Q. How do you reconcile the problem of evil with the belief in a personal God? One of the five fundamentals orA atheism is that there can't be any God because evil exists. That's idiotic. Evil means a lacking of something that should be. There is no evil in man because he can't fly of himself.

If God made everybody perfect this world would be a most unhappy place to live in. God is not the author of evil, but evil comes because some law has been broken by man. God makes all things good. Scores Van Loon's Book Q. Would you recommend the reading of Hendrik Van Loon's book, "The Story of the A.

That book is a lot of truck. Van Loon is just a penny a liner. He is in no sense a Biblical scholar. "We Cannot Judge" Q. Is there such a thing as an honest atheist? Do all atheists go to hell? A.

God tells us not to judge. We can't say that anybody will go to hell. We can't even say that Judas went to hell, although I wouldn't want to take his chances. The Church also teaches us not to judge internal things but only overt acts. CAPT.

J. J. COLLINS DIES Capt. James J. Collins, a retired fireman, died Friday at his home, 876 St.

John's Place. He was born in this borough and was at one time driver for the late Fire Commissioner W. C. Bryant of the City of Brooklyn department. He served as captain of several fire companies Baby's treated Colds without dosing- -Just rub on 24 VICKS OVER 17 MILLION JARS USED YEARLY and of the fireboat David A.

Boody. He was a member of the old Seymour Club, the Holy Name Society and the Twenty- Year Firemen's As- ing. sociation. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret McGlynn Collins; two sons, James V.

and Adrian C. Collins; two daughters, Miss Gladys M. Collins Mrs. Catherine Holt; his father, John Collins; who two brothers, John W. and William those and two sisters, Mary A.

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