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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 22, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 12.

Good

By Editor

The Reverend Doctor A. Rücker has lately entered emphatic protest against the theory that it makes no difference what our religious beliefs are. He concedes that differences of opinion on subordinate things have practically little or no effect upon the character and life of men as long as they agree on fundamentals; but on the other hand it is a fact beyond dispute that a man's religious ideals and ideas will consciously or unconsciously be transferred into practical life as molding forces, and preeminently it is true that a man will be what he believes. Absolute indifference as to religious belief can not help affecting what a man is and does. The popular claim that doctrine and dogma are nothing, while life is everything, is entirely untenable. And then illustration is given that the atheist who believes nothing greater or better in the world than humanity, becomes practically his own god, and consequently there follows self-deification, with all that grows out of the imperfect human.

The summary of Dr. Rücker's article is given in Current Literature for March, 1910. We hope that it may get strong grip on those who are preaching the senseless and utterly unchristian, unbiblical theory that it matters not what we believe.