Religion in the University
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It is difficult to understand how a religious person can desire to produce this outward conformity, which perilously verges on hypocrisy.
If it were now for the first time proposed to introduce this regulation, the very men whose office it has been to carry it out would have been the first to see how irreligious it is. The worship of God either is based upon an illusion, of all human illusions the most venerable and pathetic, or, it is of all human duties the most solemn and awful. In either ca...se it ought to be taken seriously, and absence from Christian worship should not be put on the same level in the scale of punishments with staying out too late at night or making a noise in the court. If the threat of a penalty has any effect at all, it can only operate as supplying a motive for performing the action prescribed. Does anyone, whether he be Christian or not, desire that anyone should ever attend a religious service in order to escape being gated ? Yet unless we desire this, we must admit that the penalty never has a desirable effect ; and some will not stop short of the assertion that its effect must always tend to be injurious.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is difficult to understand how a religious person can desire to produce this outward conformity, which perilously verges on hypocrisy.
If it were now for the first time proposed to introduce this regulation, the very men whose office it has been to carry it out would have been the first to see how irreligious it is. The worship of God either is based upon an illusion, of all human illusions the most venerable and pathetic, or, it is of all human duties the most solemn and awful. In either ca...se it ought to be taken seriously, and absence from Christian worship should not be put on the same level in the scale of punishments with staying out too late at night or making a noise in the court. If the threat of a penalty has any effect at all, it can only operate as supplying a motive for performing the action prescribed. Does anyone, whether he be Christian or not, desire that anyone should ever attend a religious service in order to escape being gated ? Yet unless we desire this, we must admit that the penalty never has a desirable effect ; and some will not stop short of the assertion that its effect must always tend to be injurious.
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