The Function of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence
The Function of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence
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After all, what is our theism but a sort of polytheism with the number of gods reduced to but one? Would we cease to pray? Again, what right have we to pray that events should occur if at the same time we are unwilling to assume responsibility for the consequences which would follow those events to the end of time ? For what con- sequences of prayer should we be willing to be responsible save our petitions for an inner world of truth and beauty and good- ness, for the holy and eternal, for ours...elves and for our kind? But in the nature of the case such an inner world cannot be ours save as an achievement of our own efficiency — cannot be ours as a donation by some alien power. So the only prayer we have a moral right to pray is precisely the prayer which after all we ourselves must answer. The function of prayer comes to be the filling of us with hope and con- Digitized by Google In Man's Struggle for Existence 185 fidence and courage, so that we may do in our own strength what men so often idly entrusted to the gifts or to the activities of some god-spirit apart from life.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
After all, what is our theism but a sort of polytheism with the number of gods reduced to but one? Would we cease to pray? Again, what right have we to pray that events should occur if at the same time we are unwilling to assume responsibility for the consequences which would follow those events to the end of time ? For what con- sequences of prayer should we be willing to be responsible save our petitions for an inner world of truth and beauty and good- ness, for the holy and eternal, for ours...elves and for our kind? But in the nature of the case such an inner world cannot be ours save as an achievement of our own efficiency — cannot be ours as a donation by some alien power. So the only prayer we have a moral right to pray is precisely the prayer which after all we ourselves must answer. The function of prayer comes to be the filling of us with hope and con- Digitized by Google In Man's Struggle for Existence 185 fidence and courage, so that we may do in our own strength what men so often idly entrusted to the gifts or to the activities of some god-spirit apart from life.
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